Fighting cancer with HIV

sparky_fry
sparky_fry Posts: 760
edited November 2013 in A Moving Train
Impressive
http://loiter.co/v/doctors-take-a-long-shot-and-inject-hiv-into-dying/?fb_action_ids=10151644459052052&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B547722861958838%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map

Seems the link is down, try

http://youtu.be/nslinX6C1ZM
Post edited by Unknown User on

Comments

  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    unbelievable
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    unbelievable
    I wonder if there's any way that the "engineered hiv cells" could mutate and cause aids. But either way, this truly is a remarkable achievement.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Really, just amazing!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    unbelievable
    I wonder if there's any way that the "engineered hiv cells" could mutate and cause aids. But either way, this truly is a remarkable achievement.

    didn't it say something about the HIV cells having been "turned off". I don't think cells can turn back on after that, but I'm no Bill Nye.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    unbelievable
    I wonder if there's any way that the "engineered hiv cells" could mutate and cause aids. But either way, this truly is a remarkable achievement.

    didn't it say something about the HIV cells having been "turned off". I don't think cells can turn back on after that, but I'm no Bill Nye.

    Yeah, the impression I got was that the HIV virus was engineered such that it won't give the person AIDS.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    I heard that, but could it mutate?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    I heard that, but could it mutate?

    Good question. My mother was a lab technologist back when HIV was first discovered and she was very concerned that it would mutate as an airborne virus and yet so far it has not. Yours is a good question though. If I were on deaths door with cancer I would be willing to take the chance but if I thought the virus would mutate and spread to others I would let go. This thing I wonder is, if they can engineer the virus to not be communicable why can't they cure it in the first place?
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    brianlux wrote:
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    I heard that, but could it mutate?

    Good question. My mother was a lab technologist back when HIV was first discovered and she was very concerned that it would mutate as an airborne virus and yet so far it has not. Yours is a good question though. If I were on deaths door with cancer I would be willing to take the chance but if I thought the virus would mutate and spread to others I would let go. This thing I wonder is, if they can engineer the virus to not be communicable why can't they cure it in the first place?

    you can do many things in a lab that you can't do to a human being without killing them.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    I heard that, but could it mutate?

    I doubt it. it's kind of like the flu shot. it's the flu, but "turned off". it's dead. it's kind of like asking if we can bring people back to life after taking out their heart and/or brain. at least that's my understanding of it.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    If this can actually be a legitimate cancer cure, how long before these doctors disappear?
  • Boxes&Books
    Boxes&Books USA Posts: 2,672
    Incredible.

    Thanks for sharing. Hopefully these doctors don't disappear.

Categories