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Offline erictheblue

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Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« on: June 20, 2013, 06:45:55 pm »
Doctors used the HIV virus to genetically modify T-cells of a 6-year old dying of leukemia.

It worked. She survived, and is cancer-free. (Doctors modified the virus so it does not reproduce and lead to AIDS.)
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2013, 12:29:56 pm »
Okay, that's just fucking genius.  Working with this, I wonder if there isn't a way to use HIV to program the immune system...to kill HIV.  I know its an extremely quickly-adapting virus, but this sounds freaking sweet, and it could prove useful for a lot of shit, maybe even autoimmune disorders.
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2013, 01:14:36 pm »
And this is why science is fucking amazing when it's used for the greater good.
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2013, 06:54:15 am »
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2013, 02:51:37 am »
YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKED LETHAL DISEASE SO I PUT A LETHAL DISEASE IN YOUR LETHAL DISEASE SO YOU CAN live a happy, long, and productive life through modern medical miracles.
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2013, 11:40:57 pm »
Is this an actual case of two negatives equaling a positive?  How cool is that?
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2013, 11:45:18 pm »
Quote from: Arctic Knight on June 27, 2013, 11:40:57 pm
Is this an actual case of two negatives equaling a positive?  How cool is that?

Medicine operates based on English language rules.
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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2013, 01:11:00 am »
Quote from: chitoryu12 on June 27, 2013, 02:51:37 am
YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKED LETHAL DISEASE SO I PUT A LETHAL DISEASE IN YOUR LETHAL DISEASE SO YOU CAN live a happy, long, and productive life through modern medical miracles.

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Re: Fighting Cancer - With HIV
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2013, 11:28:07 pm »
Here's hoping this actually gets mainstream press coverage. I remember that baby that was cured of HIV. It was a SIDE BLURB in the newspaper. Not the main story, a side blurb. HIV Cured, Nobody Gives A Fuck.
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