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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new type of treatment that trains immune system cells to better recognize the AIDS virus may help control the deadly and incurable infection, Australian researchers reported on Friday.

Tests on monkeys infected with a similar virus shows the treatment controlled the infection, although it does not cure it, and tests are already planned in people.

The treatment is called OPAL, for Overlapping Peptide-pulsed Autologous Cells, and would be categorized as an immunotherapy technique, or a so-called therapeutic vaccine, Stephen Kent of the University of Melbourne and colleagues said.

Writing in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Pathogens, they said the treatment involves mixing a patient's own blood cells with tiny bits of protein from the virus.
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Definitely sounds promising...

What do y'all think?

Not to turn this into a healthcare sucks thread...

I think it will be pretty much useless unless marketed at fair prices,which I doubt will happen.

This is not the first treatment like that, and surely not the last. I don't really find it worthy of attention.

I'd like to see how it works. Since the virus, as a RNA virus, has a high tax of mutation and is always changing its NB order.

What do y'all think?

What is there to think?

I'd like to see how successful this actually is.

What is there to think?

*ignores Fass' lack of thinking*
;)

Sounds like a good plan.

We already now that injecting money directly into the bloodstream kills aids -nods-

Controlling AIDS sounds likes the worst superpower ever.