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ot the only one that the virus uses as an entry point some strains use the cxcr4 receptor for example so even ignoring all impracticalities of this treatment other challenges would still need to be explored citation needed in 2019 the nih and bill melinda gates foundation announced making 200 million available for broad based multi prong scientific efforts focused on developing a global cure for aids as well as for sickle cell disease with nih director francis s collins saying we aim to go big or we go home 24 in 2020 tony fauci s division at nih niaid issued its first solicitation exclusively focused on methods to cure hiv infection 25 these announcements from nih are not limited to stem cell therapies excision biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company with a first in human crispr based one time gene therapy to be evaluated in individuals with hiv 26 the research foundation to cure aids the rftca is the first 501 c 3 non for profit organization with a royalty free license to research develop and commercialize a cell engineering technology in the field of curing aids on a pro bono basis 27 28 initial stem cell cures of hiv aids edit in 2007 timothy ray brown 29 a 40 year old hiv positive man also known as the berlin patient was given a stem cell transplant as part of his treatment for acute myeloid leukemia aml 30 a second transplant was made a year later after a relapse the donor was chosen not only for genetic compatibility but also for being homozygous for a ccr5 δ32 mutation that confers resistance to hiv infection 31 32 after 20 months without antiretroviral drug treatment it was reported that hiv levels in brown s blood bone marrow and bowel were below the limit of detection 32 the virus remained undetectable over three years after the first transplant 30 although the researchers and some commentators have characterized this result as a cure others suggest that the virus may remain hidden in tissues 33 such as the brain which acts as a viral reservoir 34 stem cell treatment remains investigational because of its anecdotal nature the disease and mortality risk associated with stem cell transplants and the difficulty of finding suitable donors 33 35 as of 2024 there have been seven patients cured by stem cell transplants see previous section microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases edit main article microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases a microbicide for sexually transmitted diseases is a gel which would be applied to the skin perhaps a rectal microbicide for persons who engage in anal sex or a vaginal microbicide for persons who engage in vaginal sex and if infected body fluid such as blood or semen were to touch the gel then hiv in that fluid would be destroyed and the people having sex would be less likely to spread infection between themselves on march 7 2013 the washington university in st louis website published a report by julia evangelou strait in which it was reported that ongoing nanoparticle research showed that nanoparticles loaded with various compounds could be used to target infectious agents whilst leaving healthy cells unaffected in the study detailed by this report it was found that nanoparticles loaded with mellitin a compound found in bee venom could deliver the agent to the hiv causing the breakdown of the outer protein envelope of the virus this they say could lead to the production of a vaginal gel which could help prevent infection by disabling the virus 36 dr joshua hood goes on to explain that beyond preventive measures in the form of a topical gel he sees potential for using nanoparticles with melittin as therapy for existing hiv infections especially those that are drug resistant the nanoparticles could be injected intravenously and in theory would be able to clear hiv from the blood stream 36 strategies to develop broadly applicable cures edit scientists have been using different approaches of stem cell based gene therapy in an attempt to develop a cure as well as to propose an alternative to the conventional antiretroviral therapy art 37 specifically advances had been made with a cure to hiv a cellular receptor generally ccr5 or cxcr4 is required in order for hiv entry into cd4 cells cells of individuals homozygous for the ccr5 gene variant δ32 ccr5δ32 δ32 lack the ccr5 cell surface expression meaning that they are naturally resistant to infection with ccr5 tropic hiv strains r5 hiv 38 one study done in 2011 achieves successful cd4 t cell reconstitution as a result of ccr5δ32 δ32 stem cell transplantation at the systemic level and in the gut mucosal immune system in a patient with hiv additionally it provides evidence for the reduction in the size of the potential hiv reservoir over time the patient in this study even remained hiv free without any evidence of having it for more than 3 5 years 30 other theoretical cures to hiv 1 have been proposed one supposed cure to hiv 1 involves the creation of a disease resistant immune system through transplantation of autologous gene modified hiv 1 resistant hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells gm hspc though this study does involve several early stage clinical trials that have demonstrated the safety and feasibility of this technique only for hiv 1 none have resulted in improvement of the disease state itself 39 therefore this strategy is intended to go alongside already existing treatment techniques such as drugs and vaccines however future technology regarding this approach of single treatment cell therapy could potentially replace current therapy altogether as a functional or sterilizing cure to hiv 1 39 an additional study involves the use of genetically engineered cd34 hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells experimental long term in vivo hiv gene therapy have had huge issues due to both transduction ending in multiple copies of heterologous dna in target cells as well as low efficacy of cell transduction at the time of transplantation this study demonstrated the efficacy of a transplantation approach that ultimately allows for an enriched population of hspcs expressing a single copy of a ccr5 mirna 40 since positive selection of modified cells is likely to be insufficient below the threshold they found of at least 70 of the hiv target cells resulting in gene modification from efficient maintenance of cd34 t cell and a low viral titer the findings show evidence that clinical protocols of hiv gene therapy require a selective enrichment of genetically targeted cells 40 immunomodulatory agents edit complementing efforts to control viral replication immunotherapies that may assist in the recovery of the immune system have been explored in past and ongoing trials including il 2 and il 7 41 the failure of vaccine candidates to protect against hiv infection and progression to aids has led to a renewed focus on the biological mechanisms responsible for hiv latency a limited period of therapy combining anti retrovirals with drugs targeting the latent reservoir may one day allow for total eradication of hiv infection 42 researchers have discovered an abzyme that can destroy the protein gp120 cd4 binding site this protein is common to all hiv variants as it is the attachment point for b lymphocytes and subsequent compromising of the immune system 43 new developments edit a turning point for hiv research occurred in 2007 following the bone marrow transplant of hiv sufferer timothy ray brown brown underwent the procedure after he developed leukaemia and the donor of the bone marrow possessed a rare genetic mutation that caused brown s cells to become resistant to hiv brown attained the title of the berlin patient in the hiv research field and is the first man to have been cured of the virus as of april 2013 two primary approaches are being pursued in the search for a hiv cure the first is gene therapy that aims to develop a hiv resistant immune system for patients and the second is being led by danish scientists who are conducting clinical trials to strip the hiv from human dna and have it destroyed permanently by the immune system 44 three more cases with similarities to the brown case have occurred since the 2007 discovery however they differ because the transplanted marrow has not been confirmed as mutated two of the cases were publicized in a july 2013 cnn story that relayed the experience of two patients who had taken antiretroviral therapy for years before they developed lymphoma a cancer of the lymph nodes they then underwent lymphoma chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation while remaining on an antiretroviral regimen while they retained traces of hiv four months afterwards six to nine months after the transplant the two patients had no detectable trace of hiv in their blood however the managing clinician dr timothy heinrich stated at the malaysian international aids society conference where the findings were presented it s possible again that the virus could return in a week it could return in a month in fact some mathematical modeling predicts that virus could even return one to two years after we stop antiretroviral therapy so we really don t know what the long term or full effects of stem cell transplantation and viral persistence is 45 in 2014 dr warner c greene and dr gilad doitsh at the gladstone institutes identified pyroptosis as the predominant mechanism that causes the two signature pathogenic events in hiv infection cd4 t cell depletion and chronic inflammation 46 47 48 identifying pyroptosis may provide novel therapeutic opportunities targeting caspase 1 which controls the pyroptotic cell death pathway specifically these findings could open the door to an entirely new class of anti aids therapies that act by targeting the host rather than the virus 49 recently pyroptosis and downstream pathways were also identified as promising targets for treatment of severe coronavirus disease 2019 associated diseases 50 in march 2016 researchers at temple university philadelphia reported that they have used genome editing to delete hiv from t cells according to the researchers this approach could lead to a dramatic reduction of the viral load in patient cells 51 52 in april 2016 it was announced the publication of a preclinical animal study using supt1 cells as a decoy target for the hiv virus 53 54 aiming to move infection from the patient s cells to the inoculated cells and therefore to induce the virus to become less aggressive by replicating in such permissive cells in march 2019 a patient with hodgkin s lymphoma was also reported to possibly have been cured using similar treatment to brown 55 in 2022 moderna announced that the first participants have been vaccinated in a phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental hiv vaccine that utilizes moderna s mrna technology 56 in 2023 excision biotherapeutics has conducted a clinical trial for ebt 101 a gene therapy using crispr and tested it in three patients 57 see also edit broadly neutralizing hiv 1 antibodies discovery and 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