Victory over HIV became even closer

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Scientists have discovered a deadly “switch” that helps to stop the cell reproduction process infected with HIV virus. It is reported that science has been looking for this mechanism for decades.

The remedy of human treatment for HIV has become even more real due to the discovery of the so -called “deadly” switch that does not allow infected cells to reproduce themselves. In the course of laboratory tests on human cells, scientists have found that the control of certain molecules can be cleaned sleeping tanks with HIV. The researchers' team has tried to find this switch for three decades, and now they are convinced that this discovery will help to create an effective mechanism for the complete removal of a terrible virus from the human body.

Currently, HIV-infected patients should take a highly active antiretroviral therapy category that retain low levels. Technically, you can live to old age, unless HIV adapts to these drugs and does not reproduce again, which requires the use of new drugs. In addition, if therapy stops for some reason, then after a while the virus begins to develop again, spread rapidly, and it can lead to AIDS for a short time. And this is already a terminal stage of HIV, during which the patient dies. Today, about 37 million inhabitants of our planet have HIV infection, but only less than 20% have free access to the necessary drugs, and in many poor African countries there are no most primitive means of controlling the spread of infection, which is why the number of infected is increasing. The California University team focused on RNA molecules that are extremely important for genes and various biological roles of living organisms. It was possible to establish that HIV-infected cells contain long non-coding RNAs (LNCRNA). These RNAs help control the inclusion or exclusion of genes in cells. Genetic sequencing more than 1100 LNCRNA has helped identify a certain type that is most active in HIV-infected. He is the same switch.