{"id":30731,"date":"2016-10-04T02:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/hiv-cure-close-after-disease-vanishes-from-blood-of-british-man"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:48","slug":"hiv-cure-close-after-disease-vanishes-from-blood-of-british-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/hiv-cure-close-after-disease-vanishes-from-blood-of-british-man","title":{"rendered":"HIV cure close after disease \u2018vanishes\u2019 from blood of British man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hiv-cure-close-after-disease-vanishes-from-blood-of-british-man.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK researchers from five major universities close in on a cure for HIV by reprogramming immune cells to recognize the virus and destroy it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A British man could become the first person in the world to be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/04\/01\/cure-for-hiv-possible-as-scientists-snip-virus-from-cells\/\"> cured of HIV<\/a> using a new therapy designed by a team of scientists from five UK universities.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old is one of 50 people currently trialling a treatment which targets the disease even in its dormant state.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/british-scientists-on-brink-of-hiv-cure-w7zb86zw0\">The Sunday Times<\/a> that presently the virus is completely undetectable in the man\u2019s blood, although that could be a result of regular drugs. However if the dormant cells are also cleared out it could represent the first complete cure. Trial results are expected to be published in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/10\/02\/hiv-cure-close-after-disease-vanishes-from-blood-of-british-man\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/10\/02\/hiv-cure-close-af...itish-man\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK researchers from five major universities close in on a cure for HIV by reprogramming immune cells to recognize the virus and destroy it. A British man could become the first person in the world to be cured of HIV using a new therapy designed by a team of scientists from five UK universities. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66093,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731\/revisions\/66093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}