Scientists have discovered a unique protein that indicates the presence of an inactive HIV virus in the body. In the past few decades, many researchers have been trying to find these hidden viruses. Now, this discovery can accelerate research on AIDS treatment. Scientists have patented new biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment. The study was published in Nature.
Thanks to modern antiretroviral therapy, for many people, HIV is no longer a death sentence, but there is still no reliable way to permanently remove it from the body.
Drugs can give the virus some control, but unfortunately, the HIV virus is a very embarrassing "terrorist." When they enter the body, they will establish their own "secret base" to avoid the tracking of the immune system.
If the immune system is the police system in our body, then these HIV “terrorists†should avoid the tracking of those “policemen†who have weapons, so as not to be “killed†directly. There are some unarmed policemen in the body who have no weapons and no lethality. We call them resting T cells (unfunctionalized). The HIV virus cleverly first "hijacked" resting T cells, and then integrated their genetic material into these cells, quietly lurking, hijacked resting T cells became the "secret base" of HIV. There, they will be dormant and will reappear until the conditions are right.
These hijacked T cells are very difficult to identify, so the latent HIV virus is very difficult to track effectively.
That's why people infected with HIV need to spend expensive drugs for the rest of their lives, because after the drug treatment is stopped, the virus can only come back in a few weeks.
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