Dear @Will22,
This is a very short pre-print that doesn’t provide a lot of details of many of the experimental procedures, so it’s very hard to know whether this study was done in a reasonable and robust manner. It may be possible that this approach might be successful, but this mouse model doesn’t completely reflect what happens in a chronic HBV patient so further studies will need to be done.
Regarding how close we are to a cure, it is hard to tell because there are just so many ways that a therapy can fail… But I would say, we’ve never been as close as we are now to a cure. Please see some videos that we’ve posted to the forum:
- How possible is a cure for Hepatitis B? - HBV Cure FAQs
- What could a Hepatitis B cure look like? - HBV Cure FAQs
- What do we need to achieve a Hepatitis B Cure? - HBV Cure FAQs
- VIDEO: Community Information on the Progress Towards a Hepatitis B Cure
- Clinical Trials: Why do we need them? What does Phase 1, 2, and 3 mean? - HBV Cure FAQs