Quote (Exx @ Jan 26 2013 04:23pm)
Can't inject macrophages or cd4s as those needs to be constantly replaced so you'll be needing booster shots every day.
The only other option i see is a modified bone marrow transplant with patient's own cells. And that's a long process with low success rate, so it's not cost effective when applied to the whole population.
http://s01.mpcdn.net/manga/p/5767/131032/1.jpg
That would be the case IF you were just injecting normal t cells.
HIV would just attack/destroy the T cells which brings the patient back to square 1
However, nullbasic expressive cells can prevent HIV replication and survive long enough to make it unnecessary to take shots everyday
Human trials were never experimented so we don't know how the body will react to these modified T cells, but I'm assuming they'll generate these cells from the patient's gene so that the immune system recognizes it (like most gene therapy)
I'm not saying everything will work perfectly, I'm just saying it looks promising from the lab results
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007769If they were limited to such obstacles, their program wouldn't be funded