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New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade | Singularity Hub

New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade | Singularity Hub | Longevity science | Scoop.it

A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the study published an examination of the patients after all this time.

 

Of the study’s 43 patients, all were healthy, and 41 of them confirmed that their immune cells which received a genetically-altered boost were still performing as hoped more than a decade after the initial infusions...

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Immune Function Regulating Molecule Discovered

Immune Function Regulating Molecule Discovered | Longevity science | Scoop.it

Researchers demonstrated that a molecule called ‘transforming growth factor beta’ helps regulate immune function in the human body in both directions.

 

This molecule mainly helps suppress immune response when needed, but has now also been seem to boost immune response under certain conditions.

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