For the 39.5 million people (according to UNAIDS and WHO) in the world living with AIDS today, a glimmer of hope may be appearing in the guise of Dr. Indrani Sarkar's research. The doctor and a scientific team have recently developed an enzyme that, under laboratory conditions, has successfully destroyed the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). Dr. Sarkar explained that the enzyme, dubbed Tre, eliminates the virus by removing it from the human genome. As the doctor explained:

In laymans terms, it's an engineered enzyme which recognises sequences in the HIV genome that is duplicated, integrated virus and by the process of recombination, it cuts out the virus from the genome.