Comments on: A Cure For HIV?

By: revivotea01

revivotea01 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:58:28 +0000

You can’t judge from one patient’s report. Please give full detailed proof. Scientists and Researchers have told that there are no medicines for the people who suffered from HIV. There are some medicines which prevents you from the HIV.

By: Joko

Joko — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:04:44 +0000

Jimmy the Dhimmi:

What does the first part of your post have to do with HIV? It sounds like you’re referring more to disorders such as autism.

As you can see from the article above, the patient in Germany had HIV eradicated from his body via a bone marrow transplant with cells which carried a specific mutation. Obviously a severe surgery to be sure, but why could this not be replicated in some more benign way to achieve the same end? My sources in the scientific community indicate it can and will be done and the delivery vector will be the attenuated HIV virus (or similar) you reference.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:25:54 +0000

The crucible to medical research in the 21st century will be gene-delivery systems that can transfect multiple cells and tissues in the body, bringing DNA directly into the nucleus of people with congenital disorders and repairing the genome without error. This is an extremely difficult task, 20 years may be wishful thinking

We know what causes most genetic diseases, we just cant package and deliver the DNA to repair the disease right now. It isn’t unique to AIDS, although AIDS may be easier to cure this way because it is a blood-bourne disease, and it would be easier to give synthetic viruses (perhaps attenuated HIV virus!) filled with the “healthy” DNA, which could edit out the HIV genes from T-Cell genomes.

By: Yo

Yo — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:39:06 +0000

If you’re going to flame, at least get your facts straight. The patient didn’t “just happened to have a donor that had this mutation”. It was by design. The mutation is a known protection against HIV and was sought out by Dr Hutter. In reading through your inane response, it’s obvious that you’re just another in the long line of know nothing, ignorant morons who spout gibberish out of their asses and pass it off as some form of informed opinion.

Here’s some advice: Read up, shut up, get informed, before you show yourself to be a moron again.

By: bunny fufu

bunny fufu — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:13:13 +0000

This is a crapshoot. Based on one patient that just happened to have a donor that had this mutation. Gene therapy, which hasn’t worked well with well-researched single-point mutation diseases like cystic fibrosis, won’t be usable for a long time. Twenty years from now, if science is actually funded, this might work. Possibly.

So I ask, is it journalistically responsible to report on medical “breakthroughs?”

By: Dollface

Dollface — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:40:36 +0000

Amazing. Crossing my fingers as well.