A man from the bay area was cured of aids from the bone marrow he received from a man that is immune aids. It's amazing that this man was cured but it's a shame that they won't be able to give the 30 million other people that need this the cure.
But transplants are grueling. Huetter would have to destroy Brown's diseased immune system with chemo and radiation, then transplant the donor's cells and hope they would take hold and grow. Many cancer patients die from such attempts
This treatment surely cannot be given to 30 million people.
Brown's success inspired scientists to try a similar but less harsh tactic: modifying some of a patient's infection-fighting blood cells to contain the mutation and resist HIV. In theory, this would strengthen the immune system enough that people would no longer need to take HIV drugs to keep the virus suppressed.
This sounds better. I hope they will succeed. But to be honest: We could handle HIV pretty easy (in the West) if everybody used condoms.
But to be honest: We could handle HIV pretty easy (in the West) if everybody used condoms.
They aren't 100% and it's not the only way you can get HIV. Considering I've donated to HIV/Aids research charities for the past two years I'm glad to here there are some breakthroughs being made.
Shouldn't they be doing some experimenting with them or something? Or taking a sample of something? Or are you yankin my chain.
Anyone who had ancestors who survived the black plague(those who got it and lived) have the possibility of being immune to AIDs. I believe it has been studied, but I'm not sure how far such research has gone.
We can't cure aids, we can keep the virus supressed. Just sayin'...
I think they have found out that if the treatmens are given to the patient from the moment on where AIDS has been confirmed, it works pretty well as preventive method, and the patients are almost not contagious at all. If, like in third world countries, we wait for the treatment until the patient's T-cell level has decreased below a certain level, the method is far less effective. I haven't found a link to that study yet, but I'll post it as soon as I found it.
Anyone who had ancestors who survived the black plague(those who got it and lived) have the possibility of being immune to AIDs. I believe it has been studied, but I'm not sure how far such research has gone.
Went to look what I found on wiki about this, and lookatthat:
The infected person's genetic inheritance plays an important role and some people are resistant to certain strains of HIV. An example of this is people with the homozygous CCR5-Î"32 variation are resistant to infection with certain strains of HIV. HIV is genetically variable and exists as different strains, which cause different rates of clinical disease progression. Source
CCR5-Î"32 is a deletion mutation of a gene that has a specific impact on the function of T cells[citation needed]. At least one copy of CCR5-Î"32 is found in about 10% of people of Northern Europe and in those of Northern European descent. It has been hypothesized that this allele was favored by natural selection during the Black Death. This coalescence date is contradicted by purported evidence of CCR5-Î"32 in Bronze Age samples, at levels comparable to the modern European population. Smallpox may be another candidate for the high level of the mutation in the European population. Source
There is only one (BIG) problem that still remains: third world countries are already getting into debts with the actual T-cell level restriction, they can't offer a treatment immediately after positive results, that would definitely ruin them.
