Man cured of aids.

[Logic 0]

What about $180 000 in its purest form injected into the bloodstream? Isn't that a cure for AIDS?

Yes, but were looking into cheaper ways to cure AIDS.

 

[The Austin]

I don't think you can be immune to HIV.

I hope it's true, though.

In fact you can. If a disease that could kill infected every human in the world some of us would naturally be immune to it. The diversity of our genes and such allow us to have different weaknesses and immunities. Therefore if such a disease existed there would always be at least 1 human immune that could survive.

Not going to lie, that's pretty damn sweet. I can already sense that I'm immune to the T-Virus!

 

[The Austin]

I don't think you can be immune to HIV.

I hope it's true, though.

Fun fact apparently %10 of europeans are HIV immune, due to (supposeidly) that aids is somehow similar to the black death, weird eh?

Weird indeed. Strange, who would have thought that the black death would have had a positive future impact?

(Sorry about the double post)

 

[Stone Wera]

I didn't hear about this... This is pretty fantastic.

 

[SnipErlite]

Oh wow, now that is quite awesome.

Once again.......... [HEADING=2]SCIENCE PREVAILS[/HEADING]

I haven't been able to say that for a while...I've missed it.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Awesome, I can start having unprotected anal sex again!

I lol'd hard....

OT: If this IS indeed true, than this is pretty cool.

 

[The Night Shade]

Never hear of this before but it's awesome a great medical advance

 

[Xyebane]

I have heard of this. This is not exactly a cure however. The risks of a bone marrow transplant are too great for this to be a cure, compounded with the fact that a HIV resistant compatible bone marrow donor is far rarer than a compatible bone marrow donor (which is hard to get as is). They were working on giving non resistant people 'natural' resistance (kinda like a vaccine but different molecular concept) by using zinc finger kinases to 'knock out' the CCD5 co-receptor. People who are naturally resistant to HIV (approx. 10% of the European population)have a mutation in this receptor which causes a truncated non-functional protein to be produced.
The bad news is that HIV has already adapted to use other co-receptors and HIV resistant individuals are no longer 'immune' to HIV, as some strains can infect them as well.
HAART (High active antiretroviral therapy) has been very successful at keeping people alive with HIV. It can effectively cure HIV if administered within 4 hours of exposure (not a great window, but it gives some help to nurses and doctors who may come in contact with contaminated blood).
Other than that, the most effective combat against HIV now and for the immediate future is Condoms. Don't have unprotected sex.

 

[Plazmatic]

This sounds awesome! Now all we have left to do is create this bone marrow in a jar, and we'll be free!

...but of course, that's near impossible, and this may not even be true. But I really, really hope it is.

hey, um did you even watch the video? This story is completely legitimate as well as the source, we do have a cure for aids, but the mortality rate would be so high it would "be ethically unjustifiable to use the treatment".

 

[oktalist]

It's from 2008. Here is the BBC's article: here [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7726118.stm].

"It's a really interesting case which looks at a treatment which really hasn't been thought about before.

"But without having that much information about the specific case you would want to be very cautious about getting too excited and you wouldn't be able to replicate that treatment for a lot of people with HIV."

But no, I hadn't heard about it before.

I don't think you can be immune to HIV.

"Roughly one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have an inherited genetic mutation, which prevents HIV from attaching itself to cells."

 

[Kiju]

No, I was not. But, this is still wonderful news to hear.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

I have heard of this. This is not exactly a cure however.

I haven't claimed that it is, I'm simply pointing out that someone who had aids has been cured of it.
I'm not saying this is how everyone should be cured, I just think it's a start. A place to go from when researching possible future cures. It's more than we've gotten in the past at least, and that has to count for something.

 

[Angryman101]

I hadn't heard of this before but something I once heard was rather interesting.
In some contries where AIDS is really preverlent victims of rape and other things that can cause people to contract AIDS are treated imidiately with loads of Anti-AIDS drugs.
Because these is so little of the HIV virus in the system the Anti-AIDS drugs kills the virus and effectively stopping things before they can start!
Now, I only head this as word of mouth (although it was from a Doctors without Boarders Doctor) but that was the general swing of it and it sounded really amazing. But don't quote me on it, double check for yourself first that I've got the facts right!

This is real, but it only works within a few days of initial exposure, if I remember right.

 

[Marsell]

further proof that stem cells are good.

 

[JWAN]

Well since it used modified skin cells and totally went around the stem cell debate then I guess the way to solve the debate over it is to bypass it with other technology.

easiest fix ever lol

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Cool! we're one step closer to the cure
and I'm okay with that

 

[JWAN]

further proof that stem cells are good.

"To establish similar immunity in HIV patients, the UC Davis team manipulated human skin cells to give these cells many of the same properties as stem cells"

dont need to use stem cells for AIDS when you can bypass the whole damn debate over it with regular skin cells. Shit, lets give this a go with things like cancer and if it works we wont need to even delve into the stem cell debate. If it works its the perfect solution. This is great news on multiple levels.

 

[Plurralbles]

it's a little oxymoric that someone can be immune to something that suppresses the immune system... : )

 

[esperandote]

I know about this only because i read about it here on the escapist. Was Wolverine the donor?

 

[BlackWidower]

...wait...there are people with a natural immunity to HIV? And they are only now thinking they can use bone marrow transplants to cure the disease? Okay, I know these people devoted their entire lives to researching the disease and finding a cure and all but COME ON!!! That is so simple.

I'm probably underthinking this or something, but the fact that such a simple treatment took this long for someone to actually do surprises me.

I'm not a M.E. or a brilliant Biologist but I believe that the bone marrow has to be found compatible with the person recieving it, the odd's on finding a compatible bone marrow for a AID's patient that just happens to be HIV immune is minimal, so yeah I think it was just good timing more than actively looking for a cure and discovering it.

I doubt they could keep HIV immune Bone Marrow exclusive to AID's patients either because of the supply and demand, if someone needs a transplant they can't really tell them tough they are saving up what they have for someone else who might come along so they can do research can they?

Good point. However I'm pretty sure they always knew this would work. Though you might be right, they only now got a chance to test it.

Also, they don't store bone marrow. If they call you to donate bone marrow, they have a recipient all lined up waiting for the doctors to take it out of you.