Tag: cure for HIV
Trump claims he’ll cure AIDS if he’s reelected to another term
At last night’s rally in Cincinnati, President Trump claimed that if he is reelected, he will cure AIDS and childhood cancer “very shortly.”
His gullible supporters cheered after Trump told them, “The things we’re doing in our country today, there’s never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly.”
In reality, Trump has slashed funding for HIV and AIDS research and, in some cases, stopped ongoing research on a...
Scientists say they’ve cured HIV in animals. Now they want to start testing on...
Scientists from Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center say they have successfully eliminated the HIV virus from live mice in a groundbreaking procedure that combines gene editing and antiretroviral medication. Now they’re hoping to get approval to test the “cure” on humans.
The team of scientists managed to remove HIV from nine out of 23 mice infected with the virus. The animals had been modified so their immune systems would resemble humans’.
Kamel Khalili, one of the study’s...
