(Potential stem cell cure…) A team of Australian scientists is
advancing towards a cure for conditions including HIV and
diabetes using stem cells. Professor Alan Trounson, a world-
renowned Australian stem cell expert and head of the California
Institute of Regenerative Medicine, says their work towards HIV
cure is about to progress to human trials. He said if the trials
were successful further research would be needed to modify the
technology so it could be affordably used where it is needed
most, in Africa. "I want the HIV work to go globally because it
shouldn't be restricted to patients in Western (countries)," the
Herald Sun quoted Prof Trounson, the former director of Monash
Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories in Melbourne, as saying.
"We're going to have to modify some of that further research to
get it into a suitable treatment that we can use in Africa. I'm
very hopeful that the industry will do that. We have to try and
make these as available to people as possible," he stated. Prof
Trounson said t