Read the full article --> http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html?eref=rss_latest A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. "The patient is fine," said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. "Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication." The case was first reported in November, and the new report is the first official publication of the case in a medical journal. Hutter and a team of medical professionals performed the stem cell transplant on the patient, an American living in Germany, to treat the man's leukemia, not the HIV itself.
i think we should suspend stem cell research because god is totally against it. or even better, simply delay our country's research in the field so other countries can surpass and exceed our healthcare.
Wow, that is amazing news. A good friend of mine has been living with HIV for twelve years. When I see his name pop up on my caller ID I fear it's going to be the call telling me he has full-blown AIDS. Let's hope this treatment can be applied on a widespread basis and it's just as effective.
Wow pretty amazing although it looks like they still have a ways to go to make it a safe treatment for anybody. The main thing is though, this is the type of bullshit that makes me think about the president who was in office the last 8 years who did not allow this research, and all of the people that might have died a horrible death because of it.
Seems as this was done with adult stem cells, not embryonic. Adult stem cell research is federally funded in the US and isn't part of the "stem cell" debate. So, I'm wondering what "god" has to do with this case, or your argument in general.
It amazes me how people with such strong opinions on the subject can display such obvious ignorance regarding the field of stem cell research.
If anything, this breakthrough seems to add credence to those in favor of focusing on adult stem cell research. I do like how CNN refused to put "adult stem cell" in the article, however. I imagine this would be leading national newscasts had it been an embryonic stem cell that yielded this result.
good if true. I still disagree on principal of California spending 6 billion dollars funding stem cell research. for me, it was fiscally risky, which has now shown to be quite true.
Really? Have you ever thought of how much stuff might have been cured by now if the types of stem cell research that had been not allowed funding by the Bush administration had been allowed? It is a well known fact that stem cells from fetus are much more adaptable, trainable, and able to make function for what is needed. Getting an adult stem cell to do the same is much tougher. So who is ignorant now?
I'm not the one who went on a Bush rant after reading of a stem cell success that Bush isn't opposed to allowing or funding. So, without you detailing your criticism, I have to assume your ignorance since the main point of your initial post seemed to be directed at Bush and "this" kind of research.
Has there ever been any explanation of Magic Johnson's HIV "cure?" I know his wife claims Jesus healed him, but never heard an actual reason.
