Potential AIDS Cure Found: Nullbasic Protein To Stop HIV Growth

In a paper published recently in the journal Human Gene Therapy, lead author David Harrich from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, said that he had found a potential AIDS cure. He said that he had modified a protein in HIV that the virus needed to replicate and made the protein to “potently” inhibit virus growth.

The author made it clear that the protein he called “Nullbasic” is not a cure for HIV. “You would still be infected with HIV, but the virus would stay latent, it wouldn’t wake up, so it wouldn’t develop into AIDS,” he told ABC Radio.

Harrich said that he found “remarkable” results in the laboratory setting, showing the ability of “Nullbasic” to arrest HIV growth. This could have exciting implications both in stopping AIDS and treating existing HIV sufferers.

“This is a world-first agent that’s able to stop HIV with a single agent at multiple steps of the virus lifecycle…. You either have to eliminate the virus infection or alternatively you have to eliminate the disease process and that’s what this could do, potentially for a very long time,” Harrich said to ABC Radio.

Will the Nullbasic gene therapy finally bring an end to the deadly AIDS condition?