Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta and the Institute of Child Health in London recently presented a mathematical model that challenges the current theory of how HIV attacks human immune cells. The model indicated that the current “runaway” hypothesis for uncontrolled T cell activation, infection, HIV production and cell destruction, cannot be possible or the disease would progress much more quickly and destroy most T helper cells in a matter of months rather than years.
According to the BBC News, Dr. Jaroslav Stark, from Imperial College London said the research has “thrown serious doubt” on popular theory and that identification of exactly how HIV depletes T cells “could pave the way for potential new approaches to treatment.”
This announcement comes in the same week as the USA National HIV Testing Day, June 27, 2007.
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