Super antibody found that kills 99% of HIV virus

Scientists have created a super antibody that kills 99% of HIV. The super antibody works very well on monkeys. Human trials will begin in early 2018.

Scientists have just found an antibody that can destroy the HIV virus. Experiments on 24 monkeys showed that even after being injected with this antibody, the monkeys remained immune to the HIV virus even after being injected with the virus again.

The reason why the human body has difficulty destroying the HIV virus is because this virus is always mutating, creating many different strains. Scientists say that the body of an HIV-infected person must face many different strains of the HIV virus.

Over the past few decades, scientists have found antibodies in some HIV-infected patients that attack the HIV virus at its source and destroy most of the HIV strains in the body. These are called 'broadly neutralizing antibodies'.

In the recently published work, scientists combined three types of 'broadly neutralizing antibodies' called 'triple antibodies' that can kill up to 99% of HIV viruses.

Professor Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (USA), told the BBC: "Combining three types of antibodies, each targeting a weak point of the HIV virus, is an effort to move towards antibody-based HIV prevention and treatment."

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, president of the International AIDS Society, said: "This super antibody seems to surpass natural limits and could have more applications than we thought. This is a huge breakthrough."

The work, published in the journal Science, is a collaboration between the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. It also includes contributions from scientists at Harvard Medical School, Scripps Research Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to TTO