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BERLIN (Reuters) - A bone marrow transplant using stem cells from a donor with natural genetic resistance to the AIDS virus has left an HIV patient free of infection for nearly two years, German researchers.
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient | Health | Reuters
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient | Health | Reuters
The patient, an American living in Berlin, was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS and also had leukemia. The best treatment for the leukemia was a bone marrow transplant, which takes the stem cells from a healthy donor's immune system to replace the patient's cancer-ridden cells.Dr. Gero Hutter and Thomas Schneider of the Clinic for Gastroenterology, Infections and Rheumatology of the Berlin Charite hospital said on Wednesday the team sought a bone marrow donor who had a genetic mutation known to help the body resist AIDS infection.
The mutation affects a receptor, a cellular doorway, called CCR5 that the AIDS virus uses to get into the cells it infects.
When they found a donor with the mutation, they used that bone marrow to treat the patient. Not only did the leukemia disappear, but so did the HIV.
"As of today, more than 20 months after the successful transplant, no HIV can be detected in the patient," the clinic said in a statement.
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient | Health | Reuters
So does a little responsibility and morality...funny thing is these two treatments also stem the supplies of stem cells...
AIDS Cases by Transmission Category
Six common transmission categories are male-to-male sexual contact, injection drug use, male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use, high-risk heterosexual (male-female) contact, mother-to-child (perinatal) transmission, and other (includes blood transfusions and unknown cause).
If the homos would quit packing each others fudge.
They wouldn't have to worry about AIDS or stem cells
What am I being judgmental aboutyou really are a judge fucking mental untolerant sob arent you?
This news is not about morality, it's about a scientific breakthrough!
Go preach your bogus morality to the millions of dying children.
The World Health Organization says there were 2 million children living with HIV in 2007...Plus 30.8 million adults, of which 15.5 were women.
http://www.who.int/hiv/data/2008_global_summary_AIDS_ep.png
WHO | Data and statistics
Basic Statistics | Statistics and Surveillance | Topics | CDC HIV/AIDS
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient
Bone marrow transplant suppresses AIDS in patient | Health | Reuters
Research Ethics and Stem Cells
"Stem cells show potential for many different areas of health and medical research, and studying them can help us understand how they transform into the dazzling array of specialized cells that make us what we are. Some of the most serious medical conditions, such as cancer and birth defects, are caused by problems that occur somewhere in this process. A better understanding of normal cell development will allow us to understand and perhaps correct the errors that cause these medical conditions.
Research on one kind of stem cellhuman embryonic stem cellshas generated much interest and public debate. Pluripotent stem cells (cells that can develop into many different cell types of the body) are isolated from human embryos that are a few days old. Pluripotent stem cell lines have also been developed from fetal tissue (older than 8 weeks of development).
As science and technology continue to advance, so do ethical viewpoints surrounding these developments. It is important to educate and explore the issues, scientifically and ethically. The NIH maintains a Department of Clinical Bioethics, and the NIH bioethics special interest group offers a list of online resources about the ethics of stem cell research.
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Research Ethics and Stem Cells [Stem Cell Information]
I wonder how the immoralist can reconcile the murder of innocent life and commercialism of dead baby products..
" HIV has no cure and is always fatal Cocktails of drugs can keep the virus suppressed, sometimes to undetectable ]
that could be the name of this thread...
alrightie...i am just not as bright as yall...stem cells....in a bone marrow transplant....didnt they just use the donors bone marrow cause he/she was resistant to the aids virus?
so morality is the determing factor in treating a disease?
lets examine things we wont treat in the future using this yardstick:
lung cancer, diabetes or obesity, std's, addictions of any type, hep a, b, or c, that will come as a real shock to the medical personal who contract it there, skin cancer,
any failed plastic surgery, i guess broken bones and such will be done on a case by case thing..making sure whatever they were doing was moral....
ahh now you are gonna say..what is immoral about the above? well look at it..the 7 deadly's are called that for a reason...gluttony...pride..sloth etc....vainty i guess would fall under pride etc...
o the hell with that hocus pocus medical shit lets just go back to putting mud on everything ... mud and potions....and see how that works.
even as the resident witch...i realize that medical science is a lot better than supersitutions and mud packs....i also realize that when you stand in front of whomever...you will answer for your inhumanity to your fellow humans...
riddle me this...cant stem cells be harvested from the embilicord?
Umbilical Cord Blood: The Future of Stem Cell Research?Such advances are casting cord blood, previously regarded as medical waste left after childbirth, in a new light.
But while experts are optimistic about the future of cord blood as a source for new stem cell therapies, they disagree about how this potentially life-saving resource should be handled.
I wonder how the immoralist can reconcile the murder of innocent life [those poor broke ass little bastards] and commercialism of dead baby products..
Moral Treatment of Embryos
In the case of embryonic stem cell research, the end that scientists hope to achieve is the relief of human suffering. That this is a humanitarian and worthy end is not in dispute. The controversy is about the means, namely, the consumption of donated embryos. More particularly, embryonic stem cell research and therapy would use donated embryos that, by virtue of donor instructions, will never enter a uterus. Is it permissible to use those means to that end? Ancient religious texts provide little guidance. The ancients did not understand embryology, did not imagine that scientists might create and nurture what we now understand as embryos in the laboratory. Nor can we get an answer from laboratory experiments. There is no test for whether an embryo is a person. Instead we are left to our own devices, to our own moral reasoning.
Commercialism?
Scientific research to treat deadly diseases = immoral commercialism?
ISSCR :: Public : Perspective : Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Research Ethics and Stem Cells [Stem Cell Information]
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this Valerie woman actually neg repped me for not supporting the murder of the unborn...
wow the future so bright now under Obama a newly married lesbian couple could get there gay friend Bruce dying of aids to artificial inseminate one of the with 2 embryo and one they could abort and give as thanks to Bruce and supple him with the fresh fetus he needs to live ...while the other they could carry to term as there lesbian love child and 9 months later they can all.. gay parade.. with the leathermen and transexuals .. proudly down main street..pushing the buggy... man could it get any better !
