May 13, 2011

On the eve of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims AIDS and US scientists have created a vaccine that allows to completely get rid of the disease, in many respects similar to AIDS. While the vaccine is experimental and tested on monkeys, but researchers do not intend to stop there.

In London, a group of American scientists from the Institute for Vaccine and Gene Therapy (Oregon, USA) was developed vaccine , Which allowed the use of guinea recover from monkeys is very similar to the AIDS disease. So far, the vaccine has been tested on animals, but in the coming years, developers plan to conduct clinical trials involving human subjects that will be possible not earlier than three years.

In the experiment, 24 perfectly healthy monkeys was grafted to create a vaccine. After that, the test animals were infected with simian immunodeficiency virus. Many scientists believe that HIV it occurred against the virus.

At the end of the study by the action of the vaccine in 13 monkeys the virus was detected. The viral disease is not able to detect even the most sensitive tests that exist today. And 12 of the recovered animals barrier is preserved even a year after the experiment.

The vaccine is based on the widespread Cytomegalovirus . Scientists using genetic engineering managed to "tune" the virus on the development of E-memory cells, which are under pressure from the immune system destroys the immunodeficiency virus. And because the CMV persists in the body for ever, developers are confident that the effect of the vaccine will be permanent.

The experts tipped a bright future given the vaccine. Millions infected with HIV there is hope for a cure. And the total number of carriers can be reduced significantly. Only Russian daily in HIV infected more than 160 people .