Stem Cells: 1 HIV: 0

Kuribo's Shoe · December 2010

Holy shit dudes.

Scientists in Berlin say they've cured an HIV patient.

That's a big deal, right?

Sweeney Tom · December 2010

holy shit

is cancer next

what about the common cold

Raijin Quickfoot · December 2010

That's a pretty big deal if it ends up being completely legit.

Fandyien · December 2010

noice

joshofalltrades · December 2010

It's time to start taking stem cells from perfectly healthy adults whom we kill for their stem cells

If this pans out, though, it will be an amazing thing

Kuribo's Shoe · December 2010

it's really only the first step, it still requires chemo and bone marrow transplants and all sorts of bullshit

still, it's pretty awesome

Houk · December 2010

this'll definitely be awesome if true, but i'm pretty sure HIV has a higher score than 0

crwth · December 2010

hiv jobbing to stem cells?!?

who booked this???

Centipede Damascus · December 2010

Stem Cells: 1 HIV: a few million

MagnumCT · December 2010

Vince Russo.

Clint Eastwood · December 2010

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

crwth · December 2010

MagnumCT wrote: »

Vince Russo.

cancer cure on a pole match

MagnumCT · December 2010

HIV routinely makes smark references that no one in the live audience gets.

mensch-o-matic · December 2010

Can't see the article right now but if it's anything like what I think has happened here then this is a prohibitively expensive, dangerous procedure with a tiny success rate

But maybe it is as good as it sounds!!! that would rock

The Otaku Suppository · December 2010

That is a very big deal.

Let's make sure he doesn't turn into a light fearing zombie and spreads a plague that wipes out most of humanity.

Anjin-San · December 2010

i can't stop playing ghetto musick

Centipede Damascus · December 2010

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es

NotASenator · December 2010

According to Google news, that's the only place reporting the story so far. I can't get the page to load myself, are they saying the results are published in a journal?

George Fornby Grill · December 2010

obviously it was our lord and savior jesus christ who died for his sins that saved that homofag from his gayvirus.

Zombiemambo · December 2010

this will just allow the gays to continue living in sin

Staleghoti · December 2010

Finally I can finally complete my dream of contracting AIDS

NotASenator · December 2010

Ah, this link works better for me:

http://www.aidsmap.com/Stem-cell-transplant-has-cured-HIV-infection-in-Berlin-patient-say-doctors/page/1577949/

Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.

The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV infection; this was due to a genetic profile which led to the CCR5 co-receptor being absent from his cells. The most common variety of HIV uses CCR5 as its ‘docking station’, attaching to it in order to enter and infect CD4 cells, and people with this mutation are almost completely protected against infection.

The case was first reported at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, and Berlin doctors subsequently published a detailed case history in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 2009.

They have now published a follow-up report in the journal Blood, arguing that based on the results of extensive tests, “It is reasonable to conclude that cure of HIV infection has been achieved in this patient.”

MagnumCT · December 2010

You can live through anything if Magic made it.

TheStig · December 2010

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

We weren't supposed to before? Oops!

Oh, the other week in chem lab we were recording the smells of some chemical and my partner goes
"What's it smell like"
me: "eggs"
her: "AIDs?!"
Me: "eggs!"

How did she think I could smell aids?

MagnumCT · December 2010

So, when you get a bone marrow transplant, do they replace all of your marrow, or just some?

Sheri · December 2010

Holy fuck!

Centipede Damascus · December 2010

TheStig wrote: »

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

We weren't supposed to before? Oops!

Oh, the other week in chem lab we were recording the smells of some chemical and my partner goes
"What's it smell like"
me: "eggs"
her: "AIDs?!"
Me: "eggs!"

How did she think I could smell aids?

BEES?

Sheri · December 2010

TheStig wrote: »

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

We weren't supposed to before? Oops!

Oh, the other week in chem lab we were recording the smells of some chemical and my partner goes
"What's it smell like"
me: "eggs"
her: "AIDs?!"
Me: "eggs!"

How did she think I could smell aids?

She said it with a lower-case s? How silly of her.

Crashmo · December 2010

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

what did the gay guy put on his sandwich

Anjin-San · December 2010

MagnumCT wrote: »

So, when you get a bone marrow transplant, do they replace all of your marrow, or just some?

no virginia, the doctors do not replace all of your bone marrow

fucking

George Fornby Grill · December 2010

Crashmo wrote: »

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

what did the gay guy put on his sandwich

JIZZ

mensch-o-matic · December 2010

TheStig wrote: »

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

We weren't supposed to before? Oops!

Oh, the other week in chem lab we were recording the smells of some chemical and my partner goes
"What's it smell like"
me: "eggs"
her: "AIDs?!"
Me: "eggs!"

How did she think I could smell aids?

well you can already hearing aids hehehheHEEEEH

Staleghoti · December 2010

So it turns out the blood of an innocent baby is the cure for everything.

Guess everyone owes the witches an apology

Anjin-San · December 2010

aids jokes belong beside dead baby and chuck norris jokes in the family guy quarter of hell

Raijin Quickfoot · December 2010

Crashmo wrote: »

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

what did the gay guy put on his sandwich

Miracle Whip?

MagnumCT · December 2010

Anjin-San wrote: »

MagnumCT wrote: »

So, when you get a bone marrow transplant, do they replace all of your marrow, or just some?

no virginia, the doctors do not replace all of your bone marrow

fucking

Some of your bones get new marrow and the others keep the shitty marrow? What good is that?

GeoMitch · December 2010

COUNTLESS BABIES MURDERED SO HOMOFASCISTS CAN CONTONUE TO LIVE, PLAGUING AMERICA FOR EONS

Anjin-San · December 2010

it's not like a goddamn oil change

Theidar · December 2010

NotASenator wrote: »

Ah, this link works better for me:

http://www.aidsmap.com/Stem-cell-transplant-has-cured-HIV-infection-in-Berlin-patient-say-doctors/page/1577949/

Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.

The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV infection; this was due to a genetic profile which led to the CCR5 co-receptor being absent from his cells. The most common variety of HIV uses CCR5 as its ‘docking station’, attaching to it in order to enter and infect CD4 cells, and people with this mutation are almost completely protected against infection.

The case was first reported at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, and Berlin doctors subsequently published a detailed case history in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 2009.

They have now published a follow-up report in the journal Blood, arguing that based on the results of extensive tests, “It is reasonable to conclude that cure of HIV infection has been achieved in this patient.”

Too bad CCR5 absence is only found in like 1% of the Caucasian population and not to any significant degree among any other populations. Not a lot of stem cell donors capable of meeting the criteria.

George Fornby Grill · December 2010

GeoMitch wrote: »

COUNTLESS BABIES MURDERED SO HOMOFASCISTS CAN CONTONUE TO LIVE, PLAGUING AMERICA FOR EONS

seig homofascism

MagnumCT · December 2010

Seems like a waste of time and resources.

Penny Arcade

Stem Cells: 1 HIV: 0

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