Comments on: 9 most important AIDS stories of 2008 http://www.365gay.com/living/9-most-important-aids-stories-of-2008/ The daily news source for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: John X http://www.365gay.com/living/9-most-important-aids-stories-of-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-33350 John X Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:02:07 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=4386#comment-33350 I would add to the list Sudhir Paul and Stephanie Planque of U Texas Medical School at Austin's work on "abzymes" that use catalytic activity to target a small section of HIV's gp120 protein that is identical in most strains, required to infect cells and also hard for human antibodies to find. Each unit of the "abzymes" can, in theory, inactivate thousands of copies of the virus. (They defeat a copy, then move on to another.) Human trials are planned and cannot come soon enough. They plan abzyme therapy by intravenous infusion to remove free virus coupled with nasal vaccination using a synthetic, chemically modified fragment of the virus. They are looking for participants in the study in late 2009, and already will collect names of potential volunteers. I would add to the list Sudhir Paul and Stephanie Planque of U Texas Medical School at Austin’s work on “abzymes” that use catalytic activity to target a small section of HIV’s gp120 protein that is identical in most strains, required to infect cells and also hard for human antibodies to find. Each unit of the “abzymes” can, in theory, inactivate thousands of copies of the virus. (They defeat a copy, then move on to another.) Human trials are planned and cannot come soon enough. They plan abzyme therapy by intravenous infusion to remove free virus coupled with nasal vaccination using a synthetic, chemically modified fragment of the virus. They are looking for participants in the study in late 2009, and already will collect names of potential volunteers.

]]> By: Krishna Stone http://www.365gay.com/living/9-most-important-aids-stories-of-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-33195 Krishna Stone Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:21:03 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=4386#comment-33195 Thank you for including GMHC in your retrospective article. Many blessings to you and 365Gay team on World AIDS Day. Krishna Stone Thank you for including GMHC in your retrospective article. Many blessings to you and 365Gay team on World AIDS Day.

Krishna Stone

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