Can Bananas Cure Aids?

This is a surprising piece of news that scientist BanLec found potent anti-HIV drugs in bananas. It means that bananas may hold the key to powerful new treatments that protect against the Aids virus. Then we cure Aids is as easy as we use ghd iv styler to make curls. If it were true, then deadly Aids can be regarded as a cold.

In laboratory tests, scientists found that a banana ingredient called BanLec was as potent as two existing anti-HIV drugs. They believe cheap therapies based on BanLec have the potential to save millions of lives.

The ingredient is a lectin, a naturally occurring chemical in plants that fights infection.Researchers in the U.S. found that the lectin found in bananas can inhibit HIV infection by blocking the virus's entry into the body. BanLec acts on the protein 'envelope' that encloses HIV's genetic material.

Lead author Michael Swanson, from the University of Michigan, said: “The problem with some HIV drugs is that the virus can mutate and become resistant, but that's much harder to do in the presence of lectins. Lectins can bind to the sugars found on different spots of the HIV-1 envelope, and presumably it will take multiple mutations for the virus to get around them.” Whether or not, this is an exciting finding. Then we will not fear this deadly disease. Aids may become extinct as well as smallpox in human history.

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