rob Posted December 14, 2010 Posted December 14, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/14/hiv-cure-berlin-patient_n_796521.html On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Of course, this is EXACTLY the kind of thing conservatives are trying to prevent. Stem cell research?? AIDS cures??? NO THANKS!!! Quote
Coldfinger Posted December 14, 2010 Posted December 14, 2010 Well judging by the long line of preachers who ARE fags and then hate fags in public (unknown number of Catholic priests, the tweaker from Colorado Springs megachurch, the brother from the Georgia megachurch........) logic then dictates: God must be a fag! Quote
ivan Posted December 14, 2010 Posted December 14, 2010 God must be a fag! nah, total bisexual, that One is - he likes to take everyone from the tail-end Quote
Coldfinger Posted December 14, 2010 Posted December 14, 2010 God must be a fag! nah, total bisexual, that One is - he likes to take everyone from the tail-end So that's how it was an "immaculate conception", never thought of that! Quote
PeakChaser Posted December 14, 2010 Posted December 14, 2010 We aren't guaranteed a right to marry whoever we want. That is why people can't marry trees or dogs. That's why were in this mess in the first place. dangit I'm trying to upload a pic of my glock and it isn't working. Quote
JayB Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Looks like the group replaced the guys own cells with stem cells that lack a functional version one of the two primary surface receptors that HIV uses to latch onto and enter T-Cells, and the particular strain of virus infecting this guy could not infect the new T-cells. Sounds like the concern was that the virus that the guy was infected with, which binds that particular receptor, would mutate until it could latch onto the other receptor (still present on the new T-cells) but that hasn't happened. If it's possible to generate or find stem cells that lack a functional version of either receptor that may help with this problem. I'm not sure if everyone would call anything but complete clearance of the virus from every cell in the body a cure - but that's a much finer distinction than anyone suffering from the disease would make. Seems like it has the potential to be a big step forward if it's reproducible in other patients. Quote
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