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02-10-2006, 10:52 AM
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Has BYU prof found AIDS cure?
Has BYU prof found AIDS cure?
"Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do. And, unlike the expensive, drug cocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV. Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system. Under a study sponsored by Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Savage and his colleagues developed and synthesized the compound for Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine. In his Nashville, Tenn., laboratories, Derya Unutmaz, an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology, tested several CSAs for their ability to kill HIV. While issuing a cautious caveat about his early results, Unutmaz acknowledged Monday that CSAs could be the breakthrough HIV/AIDS researchers have sought for so long." Read full story here
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02-10-2006, 11:05 AM
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Be aware, that until this drug or drug class makes it into 1)Published peer-reviewed literature, or 2) a patent. All claims are just that, Claims. And they aren't kidding about the 5-7 year time line for a finished drug product either. That is assuming side effects aren't discovered in further animal testing.
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02-13-2006, 01:27 PM
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Also makes you wonder if drug companies would try and stop this, you know they are making a fortune off the other drugs that "slow down" HIV/AIDs.
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02-13-2006, 01:48 PM
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This would be too much of a money maker. Now they might try to buy out the company and take its IP though. That would make business sense. MAny of the big pharma companies are getting out of the R&D business and into the licensing and marketing business.
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