Genes that can help control HIV detected

Scientists have pinpointed three genes that help some HIV infected people rein in the virus and postpone the onset of AIDS in a finding that may help guild vacinne and drugs development. The identified variations in the three genes that may help the immune systems of some people control the virus while others fail to control HIV proliferation.

The international teams of researchers scanned the genomes of 486 HIV infected people from others countries. AIDS is an incurable disease in which the virus damages the immune systems, the body natural defender. IN early stages of HIV infection before the virus has had time to cause full blown AIDS, there is the battle between the virus and the immune systems, which deploys key immune cells to try to prevent HIV from multiplying out of control. The immune systems sucess varies tremendously from person to persons.

What you'd like to do is understand why some people's immune systems can push the virus down to really low levels and others can't and you would try to capitalise on that with a vaccine strategy.