Brilliant if they are on the verge

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Could this finally be the big breakthrough the world has been waiting for?

Danish scientists believe they are on the brink of an HIV cure.  You read that right: Cure.  Not treatment, but a way to totally rid the body of HIV.  Forever.

They are conducting clinical trials to test a “novel strategy” in which the HIV virus is stripped from human DNA and destroyed permanently by the immune system.

And, unlike expensive and risky gene-therapy "cures", this would potentially be mass-distributable and affordable.   I hope this isn't too good to be true.

more details here: http://goo.gl/wf9zh   ---- via +peter k 





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