[HOLDMYBALLSACK]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-...-treatment.html

[Piperka]

Was just about to post this. 5 minutes late!

I think this is revolutionary and great. Let's hope we can cure aids for good heh?!

[dansgas1000]

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[Chunkyman]

That's awesome. Now we must clone the peaches out of HIV-resistant marrow.

[Irviding]

Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it.

[agent17]

QUOTE (Irviding @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 10:22)

Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it.

Because that would make way too much sense.

[HOLDMYBALLSACK]

QUOTE (Irviding @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 15:22)

Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it.

becuase then drug companies lose trillions treating people with cocktails of expensive drugs lifelong

[Irviding]

QUOTE (HOLDMYBALLSACK @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 10:26)

QUOTE (Irviding @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 15:22) Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it. becuase then drug companies lose trillions treating people with cocktails of expensive drugs lifelong

That's definitely part of the reason... they'd rather have you pay them small amounts for the rest of your life so the symptoms can be mitigated.

[lol232]

That is amazing!
Science has made it very far last and current century!

[trip]

QUOTE (Irviding @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 11:22)

Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it.

Don't even get me started on that one. The arguments against stem cell research are beyond asinine. Yet another example of religion holding back society, I guess.

[EscoLehGo]

QUOTE (Irviding @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 15:22)

Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it.

*Puts on best Alabama accent possible*

BECUZ DE BABIEZ IZ PRECIOUZ, DONT YU KNOW DAt BOY, DEM BABIES IS GIFTS FROM GAWD N GAWD DONT LYKE YU DEFILIN DEM GIFTS FER YER LIBERAL SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS, YA HEAR BOY

[K^2]

QUOTE (HOLDMYBALLSACK @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 11:26)

QUOTE (Irviding @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 15:22) Why, may I ask, do we not fund stem cell research more here in the US? Please explain why for Christ's sake when we can f*cking cure AIDs with it. becuase then drug companies lose trillions treating people with cocktails of expensive drugs lifelong

That doesn't really work in practice. It slows things down a little, certainly, but it never comes even close to completely stalling progress, be it medical or technological. There's always that one guy who's willing to back-stab everyone else in the industry by releasing something that will make competitor product obsolete, and make a killing on being the first guy to sell the new thing. Some even do it out of fear that somebody will beat them to the punch. It's really one of these cases where Prisoner's Dilemma works in our advantage. As profitable as selling anti-retrovirals is, trust me, every pharma company out there is working hard on coming up with a cure. Once they have it, somebody will drop it on the market.

As far as actual success of this treatment, this is very good news indeed. It's not a complete cure, since you need the right donor. But it's half of the cure, and we almost have the other half. We can go about it several different ways. We can find an acceptable donor and modify his cells to be universal donor cells. Not easy, but far from impossible. We can develop a virus that goes in and adds the resistance gene to the marrow. That tends to be costly, since viral gene therapy has to be very specialized. What I'm thinking will be the most likely solution is taking patient's own marrow, and modifying its genetic sequence to have resistance you are looking for. Now that we know that donor marrow works to stop the virus, (which makes sense, but was never a guarantee by any measure,) all we need to know is the location of the resistance gene, and we practically have the tech to do the rest.

At any rate, this is going to be pretty fast now. Give it a decade or two. Unfortunately, a lot of people will still die from AIDS before this is perfected, and probably quite a few even after that, but at least now you can live in a little bit less fear. If you get infected now, you can survive long enough on anti-retrovirals to see the cure developed.

[IM_YOUR_GOD]

Thank Sweet Baby Jesus and His Lab Coat.

[Vercetti27]

yeah yeah, inject all your cash into your veins, it's been known for years...

[DeeperRed]

When I saw the tread title it wasn't going to be anywhere near as black and white but nope a man was cured of aids. This is a historical event in medicine, its not mass marketable yet but its not far off.

[Whiskey]

This is great news. Hopefully the stockpile of this gene gets bigger the more donors we find. Now we are finally making progress at eradicating such a big disease.

[AlexGTAGamer]

Wonderful news indeed. Today curing HIV, tomorrow possibly curing Cancer or Alzheimer's disease. Here's hoping.

[Typhus]

You see? People actually support medical breakthroughs like this. People support science and the betterment of humanity that emerges from its continued patronage.
I hope you remember how good you feel about this the next time you hear about a scientifically created subspecies like the Worm-Sheep.
Isn't it time we stopped all those trite moral objections about 'playing God'? It seems we're doing a much better job than Him anyway.

So, remember this. Remember this the next time you feel like badmouthing humanity and saying that we're a disaster for the entire planet.

[K^2]

QUOTE (Typhus @ Sunday, Jun 10 2012, 13:13)

So, remember this. Remember this the next time you feel like badmouthing humanity and saying that we're a disaster for the entire planet.

Oh, I'm only saying it because we don't do enough stuff like this.

QUOTE

Wonderful news indeed. Today curing HIV, tomorrow possibly curing Cancer or Alzheimer's disease. Here's hoping.

There is not really such a thing as "cure for cancer". Cancer is a very broad term. Different cancers will need completely different treatments, and there will always be something new and different.

That said, some are more frequent and dangerous than others, and we'd obviously want a handle on these, and that's within reach.

[IM_YOUR_GOD]

Playing God?

Yall believe that BS?

We can split atoms, experiment on the condition of the big bang, travel the heavens, kill for treason but cant study medical benefits of stem cells and marijuana in America.