Bit of a different topic

[mutt]

What's crazy is they used the HIV virus to do it:

"In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients."

So the most feared plague of the modern age may well hold the key to curing one of humanity's oldest diseases. Quite cool. Of course there's a lot more research to be done before victory can be declared. Working in 3 patients doesn't mean it will work large scale.

[Ronin13]

I only hope that this doesn't lead to an "I Am Legend" Scenario...

[spyder]

I only hope that this doesn't lead to an "I Am Legend" Scenario...

isn't that something that we are all geared up for anyway...
the i am legend idea from science is a project that i read about a while back where they were using the flesh eating bacteria as a weight loss program... there were actually clinical trials. never did read about what came of them though.

[Lex_Luthor]

That's SO cool to hear about! Awesome! I hope this opens doors to solving these types of health issues, especially without drugs.

[Monky]

isn't that something that we are all geared up for anyway...
the i am legend idea from science is a project that i read about a while back where they were using the flesh eating bacteria as a weight loss program... there were actually clinical trials. never did read about what came of them though.

I'm not sure I could shoot my neighbor if his T cells turned 'I am Legend'... poor bastard has gone through enough

Oh who am I kidding.. BRING ON THE ZOMBIES!

[OneGuy67]

I had a friend 10 years ago who had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and after a couple of rounds of targeted chemo, she had T-cells removed and grown, then her body was hit with a large dose of radiation, which finally killed the cancer and then the T-cells were replaced in the hopes of kick starting her immune system after the radiation destroyed it. It only partially worked and her immune system was extremely weak. She succumbed when she was hospitalized with the flu and a contracted a staph infection at the hospital. Her immune system wasn't strong enough to combat the infections.

I hope the medical advances have been significant in this area since she went through it and people are surviving.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

isn't that something that we are all geared up for anyway...
the i am legend idea from science is a project that i read about a while back where they were using the flesh eating bacteria as a weight loss program... there were actually clinical trials. never did read about what came of them though.

If it works, Great more power to them and to all the Cancer patients in need!! But??? If Not!!

Oh who am I kidding.. BRING ON THE ZOMBIES!

Than this ^^^^^

[trout_champ]

I only hope that this doesn't lead to an "I Am Legend" Scenario...

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read this.

Randy