A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS

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Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication...

The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn't an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient's bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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Well this is an awesome breakthrough and i hope that this isn't just a fluke but a genuine way of curing it.

I would have thought that this would have been something already tried though, placing immune marrow and seeing how it went.

It will be interesting keep an eye on this, if some factions of ATS are to be believed then Aids was potentially a government made drug, if true we should see this potential cure disappearing relatively quickly.

online.wsj.com
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Well, I imagine coming up with immune marrow (rare) as well as a donor match is not so easy. That may be why it had not been attempted before. This is very promising, though. Great article!

Stared and flaged, let us hope that there is some real science behind this article and not just some one in a billion odd that was in the guys favour.

I've actually heard of this on several news stations, but not for a few weeks.
Back before we knew what AIDS was, there were more than a few people who contracted the virus via blood transfusions at hospitals. What was overlooked until recently is that a number of people who recieved infected blood did not contract HIV or AIDS; for several years now doctors have been working to isolate this immunity. What they've discovered now is that by adding a certain compound to living human blood, a persons cellular structure will change in such a way that the HIV virus at base (including all known mutations) can no longer be harmful. So far the success rate has been 100%, but to my knowledge there haven't been many, if any, human trials.
The original article under which this was found is called The HIV Vaccination, or something to that effect.

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Sounds interesting, if you could pull up some links? Cheers.

Here you go. It was late last night and the thought completely escaped me.

www.pbs.org...

www.sciencedaily.com...

hiv is a dangerous disease, contracting it is easier then getting tested for it. Anyone who wants a sexual encounter is in danger, and it can take up to a year once you get the disease to find out if you have it. Maybe people should stop having sex all together, and killing anyone who makes a sexual advance to show how serious the disease is.

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In time, if this is accurate and there is no mistake or fluke to it, we may be able to find an ethical opportunity to gather and clone stem cells with the mutation.

I'm not real up on gene therapy but it may even be possible to create said mutation in existing lines of stemcells?

Could be a huge thing. Even if it turns out that HIV can't be eliminated, the fact that people can be given bone marrow that will produce HIV-immune white cells could mean a significant weapon against the opportunistic diseases that give AIDS its actual killing power.

edit to add:
On the flip side, anything short of destroying the virus in patients does run the risk of proliferating more mutant strains that can't be treated in the same way.

[edit on 12-11-2008 by The Vagabond]

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It finally got a little bump in the MSM yesterday at Fox. This does sound promising and I also hope that this cursed disease has been defeated. Be it man made or not.

Fox report on this break through

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AIDS has existed long before people were capable of engineering such a thing. If you consider we can't even engineer a cure, it seems a little more than far-fetched that someone made it in the first place.