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[Ion Cannon!]

I look at reality TV all the celebrity bollocks and other social matters and think " God humans are terrible " - And some without a doubt are.

But for most awful terrible things, there is usually something wonderful to counterbalance it.

http://gizmodo.com/5...ly-cured-of-hiv

[Pav:3d]

Excellent news. By the sounds of it the procedure was horrible, but it came through in the end.

[Chyros]

I read about it, yeah, but do note that this will probably not be generally applicable. In this case, the guy already suffered from an immune disease so he didn't have any immune cells at all and what they did was simply give him new cells; basically speaking it confirmed that if you take out all the infected cells and replace them with healthy ones, the disease is cured. It's much like saying you can cure cancer by taking out all cancer cells . The lack of applicability here is shown in that this procedure will only save people who have that other disease or who have no immune system at all, and it's not a very good idea to forcibly introduce this into the patient.

[Golan]

TBH this sounds less like a cure and more like a full immune system transplant. It's like "fixing" a broken leg by amputating an attaching a new one.

Still, might give some people hope.

[Ion Cannon!]

Chyros, on 16 Dec 2010, 16:27, said:

I read about it, yeah, but do note that this will probably not be generally applicable. In this case, the guy already suffered from an immune disease so he didn't have any immune cells at all and what they did was simply give him new cells; basically speaking it confirmed that if you take out all the infected cells and replace them with healthy ones, the disease is cured. It's much like saying you can cure cancer by taking out all cancer cells . The lack of applicability here is shown in that this procedure will only save people who have that other disease or who have no immune system at all, and it's not a very good idea to forcibly introduce this into the patient.

I'm aware of that, but its still one step further to curing HIV. Which can only be a good thing.

[BeefJeRKy]

Basically, this news gives hope for pushing into stem cell research which will allow the culturing of marrow like that of the donor. Still gonna be a hugely expensive cure and dangerous at that. And damn that guy had a bad life. Leukemia AND HIV? He has been given TWO new leases on life.

[Major Fuckup]

Leave it to the Germans to do that !