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Stem Cells: 1 HIV: 0

Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's StockingNorth PoleRegistered User regular
edited December 2010 in Social Entropy++
Holy shit dudes.

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

That's a big deal, right?

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    holy shit

    is cancer next

    what about the common cold

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    That's a pretty big deal if it ends up being completely legit.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    noice

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited 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

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited 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

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    this'll definitely be awesome if true, but i'm pretty sure HIV has a higher score than 0

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    hiv jobbing to stem cells?!?

    who booked this???

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Stem Cells: 1 HIV: a few million

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Vince Russo.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MagnumCT wrote: »
    Vince Russo.

    cancer cure on a pole match

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    HIV routinely makes smark references that no one in the live audience gets.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited 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

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited 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.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    i can't stop playing ghetto musick

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Clint Eastwood wrote: »
    Cool, now AIDS is funny! We can make AIDS jokes now!

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

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited 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?

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    obviously it was our lord and savior jesus christ who died for his sins that saved that homofag from his gayvirus.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    this will just allow the gays to continue living in sin

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Finally I can finally complete my dream of contracting AIDS

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited 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.”

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    You can live through anything if Magic made it.

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited 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?

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So, when you get a bone marrow transplant, do they replace all of your marrow, or just some?

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Holy fuck!

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited 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?

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited 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.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited 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

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited 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

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited 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

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited 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

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So it turns out the blood of an innocent baby is the cure for everything.


    Guess everyone owes the witches an apology

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    aids jokes belong beside dead baby and chuck norris jokes in the family guy quarter of hell

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited 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?

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited 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?

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    COUNTLESS BABIES MURDERED SO HOMOFASCISTS CAN CONTONUE TO LIVE, PLAGUING AMERICA FOR EONS

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    it's not like a goddamn oil change

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  • TheidarTheidar Registered User regular
    edited 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.

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    COUNTLESS BABIES MURDERED SO HOMOFASCISTS CAN CONTONUE TO LIVE, PLAGUING AMERICA FOR EONS

    seig homofascism

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Seems like a waste of time and resources.

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