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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 12:54 PM
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27. It was stem cells from an adult n/t
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  -Cure for HIV found? Stem Cell transplant eliminates all traces of virus... RollWithIt  Feb-11-09 06:58 PM   #0 
  - While interesting as an anecdote,  cosmicone   Feb-11-09 07:03 PM   #1 
  - and how much does a decade of current treatments cost then? nt  msongs   Feb-11-09 07:14 PM   #4 
  - Meds cost about 6k a year.. n/t  ingac70   Feb-11-09 07:25 PM   #11 
  - Would you uindergo chemo and radiation and then what if a homologus  cosmicone   Feb-11-09 07:52 PM   #19 
     - You'd first find a donor, THEN destroy your own bone marrow. That's a given. nt  thereismore   Feb-12-09 04:16 PM   #31 
  - Question, how much would the US Government currently pay for longterm treatment vs shortterm cure?  RollWithIt   Feb-11-09 07:19 PM   #8 
  - Apart from the cost and the compatible donor issue...  ljm2002   Feb-12-09 01:41 PM   #30 
  - Am I reading this right?  HiFructosePronSyrup   Feb-11-09 07:04 PM   #2 
  - Esssentially, they would call it "Gene Modification"  RollWithIt   Feb-11-09 07:15 PM   #5 
  - You're not following me.  HiFructosePronSyrup   Feb-11-09 07:18 PM   #7 
     - HIV isn't a gene... it's a virus...  RollWithIt   Feb-11-09 07:20 PM   #9 
        - Yeah, forget it.  HiFructosePronSyrup   Feb-11-09 07:21 PM   #10 
           - there was a similar story last week about ms  mopinko   Feb-11-09 07:42 PM   #16 
           - OK.  HiFructosePronSyrup   Feb-11-09 07:45 PM   #17 
              - yeah! 11!  mopinko   Feb-11-09 07:48 PM   #18 
           - The CCR5 gene evolved among 15% of Northern Eruopeans...  DCKit   Feb-12-09 01:06 PM   #28 
           - The CCR5 mutation evolved among 15% of Northern Europeans.  HiFructosePronSyrup   Feb-12-09 01:10 PM   #29 
           - It does have negative implications though.  Xithras   Feb-12-09 05:28 PM   #34 
           - my sense is that it's not really a knock-out because the stem cell population...  mike_c   Feb-12-09 05:17 PM   #33 
  - They replace your own bone marrow stem cells with CCR5 negative ones. They  thereismore   Feb-12-09 04:19 PM   #32 
     - What prevents the growrth of CCR5 positive marrow?  HiFructosePronSyrup   Feb-12-09 05:33 PM   #35 
        - The new stem cells lack part of the CCR5 gene. They are CCR5-, so they cannot  thereismore   Feb-13-09 11:01 AM   #36 
  - Well you know this is going to make the Fundies go completely apeshit  kenny blankenship   Feb-11-09 07:13 PM   #3 
  - I was thinking the same thing. Killing fetuses to save gays. Wow. Their heads will blow up. nt  mistertrickster   Feb-11-09 11:58 PM   #24 
     - It was stem cells from an adult n/t  tammywammy   Feb-12-09 12:54 PM   #27 
  - 6 years too late for my dear friend  Catshrink   Feb-11-09 07:16 PM   #6 
  - Awesome. My fiance is CCR5 negative.  Barack_America   Feb-11-09 07:30 PM   #12 
  - i'm going to recommend this -- though obviously it isn't  xchrom   Feb-11-09 07:30 PM   #13 
  - Yeah, you have to get pretty well irradiated before you can have a transplant...  Barack_America   Feb-11-09 07:38 PM   #15 
     - hey -- the science on this is fascinating.  xchrom   Feb-11-09 08:13 PM   #22 
  - Even though  QueenOfCalifornia   Feb-11-09 07:32 PM   #14 
     - No one is shooting anything down, they are pointing at the real problems with the therapy.  Fire_Medic_Dave   Feb-11-09 07:59 PM   #20 
     - Yes.....  girl gone mad   Feb-11-09 08:03 PM   #21 
        - Me too!  Spangle   Feb-11-09 08:40 PM   #23 
           - Bone marrow transplants  Wildewolfe   Feb-12-09 11:58 AM   #25 
              - Not to mention the difficulty of matching up donors and recipients.  trotsky   Feb-12-09 12:38 PM   #26 
 

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