{"id":89256,"date":"2019-04-05T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/first-of-its-kind-hiv-therapy-draws-out-the-virus-then-kills-it"},"modified":"2019-04-05T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:44:38","slug":"first-of-its-kind-hiv-therapy-draws-out-the-virus-then-kills-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/first-of-its-kind-hiv-therapy-draws-out-the-virus-then-kills-it","title":{"rendered":"First-of-Its-Kind HIV Therapy Draws out the Virus, Then Kills It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-hiv-therapy-draws-out-the-virus-then-kills-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HIV is a sneaky virus. It can hide in the immune cells of people taking daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs, waiting until they stop the therapy to come back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>This forces them to continue ART \u2014 and continue dealing with its many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/basics\/livingwithhiv\/treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">side effects<\/a> \u2014 for their entire lives.<\/p>\n<p>But now, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have developed an HIV immunotherapy that not only kicks the virus out of hiding, but also kills it permanently \u2014 the first step, they say, to an HIV vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/hiv-immunotherapy-draws-cells-kills-them\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/hiv-immunotherapy-draws-cells-kills-them<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV is a sneaky virus. It can hide in the immune cells of people taking daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs, waiting until they stop the therapy to come back with a vengeance. This forces them to continue ART \u2014 and continue dealing with its many side effects \u2014 for their entire lives. But now, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89256","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}