Bone marrow trans plant cures AIDs victim

Desh said:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/12/germany-marrow-transplant-may-have-cured-aids-1/

20 months after he still shows no sign of AIDs
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Huettler's patient was under treatment at Charite for both AIDS and leukemia, which developed unrelated to HIV.

As Huettler _ who is a hematologist, not an HIV specialist _ prepared to treat the patient's leukemia with a bone marrow transplant, he recalled that some people carry a genetic mutation that seems to make them resistant to HIV infection. If the mutation, called Delta 32, is inherited from both parents, it prevents HIV from attaching itself to cells by blocking CCR5, a receptor that acts as a kind of gateway.

"I read it in 1996, coincidentally," Huettler told reporters at the medical school. "I remembered it and thought it might work."
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I don't see "fetal stem cells" anywhere in this article. Good thing US federal dollars weren't spent on it, as it may have diverted research from something that could actually cure illness.
 
You do realise straight people who are not at fault for being infected can possibly be cured also right?
 
Excellent news! I wonder if the cure is 100% effective.

Great news no matter what.


I remember seeing some research done at Johns Hopkins using viruses to transport medicines to specific locations. They were planning to use this to combat some of the illnesses that attack when AIDs hits its stride.
 
Southern Man said:
I don't see "fetal stem cells" anywhere in this article. Good thing US federal dollars weren't spent on it, as it may have diverted research from something that could actually cure illness.
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Its a good thing private sources were available for the stem cell research, otherwise valuable years could have been lost by the silly bans.

Its a good thing we have a new administration in that will base the research dollars on need rather than on superstitions.
 
Solitary said:
Its a good thing private sources were available for the stem cell research, otherwise valuable years could have been lost by the silly bans.

Its a good thing we have a new administration in that will base the research dollars on need rather than on superstitions.
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How right you are. Wow science is going to prevail for at least the next 4 years! Ya-mutherfucking-hoo!
 
Solitary said:
Its a good thing private sources were available for the stem cell research, otherwise valuable years could have been lost by the silly bans.

Its a good thing we have a new administration in that will base the research dollars on need rather than on superstitions.
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You mean we need to divert limited resources towards activities that have showed no promise.
 
Desh said:
You do realise straight people who are not at fault for being infected can possibly be cured also right?
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You mean non-straight people are at fault? That would mean that they chose their behavior, right? You best expect a call from the PC Police.
 
Southern Man said:
You mean we need to divert limited resources towards activities that have showed no promise.
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They already divert limited resources away from research that shows no promise. As any researcher will tell you, if you cannot produce you will not get more grants.

Stem cell research has shown tremendous promise. But taking it from promise to results takes dollars.
 
Southern Man said:
You mean non-straight people are at fault? That would mean that they chose their behavior, right? You best expect a call from the PC Police.
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No, that is not what she meant at all. Just because the straight person who contracted AIDs is not at fault does not mean that the fault lies with someone who isn't straight.

Sometimes medical procedures spread it. Sometimes accidents spread it. And sometimes tracing the origins of the exposure are impossible.


But thanks for playing along so well.
 
Solitary said:
No, that is not what she meant at all. Just because the straight person who contracted AIDs is not at fault does not mean that the fault lies with someone who isn't straight.

Sometimes medical procedures spread it. Sometimes accidents spread it. And sometimes tracing the origins of the exposure are impossible.


But thanks for playing along so well.
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All I know is the urban legend about the guy who brought it from Africa (perhaps contracted from Monkey's, they say) and then hit the gay bars and bath houses...
 
Damocles said:
We donated our child's umbilical cord so that they could use the umbilical stem cells for research. It didn't even take killing the child...
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Good job, Damo. It wasn't asked about when my kids were born (back in the dark ages).

I think it should be a standard thing unless the parents ask for it not to be done.
 
Threedee said:
All I know is the urban legend about the guy who brought it from Africa (perhaps contracted from Monkey's, they say) and then hit the gay bars and bath houses...
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It's likely that a tribe in Africa contracted it from EATING raw monkey meat and had been spreading it for a long time before that guy came to Africa to buy one of their infected prostitutes. Only it was Africans dying, so no one cared. Then it was fags dying in the US, so no one cared. No one cared at all until healthy straight white Christians started falling over, and by that time it was too late.
 
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