7Feb/060
Has BYU Professor Found AIDS Cure?
Found an interesting article about a family of compounds called Ceragenins (CSAs) that have had some really interesting preliminary success in fighting the HIV virus.
What studies to date show is a compound that attacks HIV at its molecular membrane level, disrupting the virus from interacting with their primary targets, the "T-helper" class white blood cells that comprise and direct the human immune system. Further, CSAs appear to be deadly to all known strains of HIV.
In addition to being a potential checkmate to HIV, the compounds show indications of being just as effective against other diseases plaguing humankind - among them influenza, possibly even the dread bird flu, along with smallpox and herpes.