AIDS Virus Could Be Harnessed to Fight Cancer

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It's an interesting and short article if anyone is interested.

http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...mutant-powers-could-be-harnessed-fight-cancer

Viruses are skillful mutants, changing their structures or outer proteins to evade the shifting natural defenses of their targets. (This is why you have to get a flu shot every year.) Now researchers in France report using one of the most proficient mutants, HIV, to fight another intractable disease: Cancer.
 
Sounds interesting, So to cure cancer they will infect you with Aids.

Seems Legit.
 
BF3Dreadnaut said:
Sounds interesting, So to cure cancer they will infect you with Aids.

Seems Legit.
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Not exactly what they are doing. But good guess!
 
Without reading an article, one could assume that a test subject would be infected with AIDS to cure their cancer, not a guess it's an Educated Guess.
 
BF3Dreadnaut said:
Without reading an article, one could assume that a test subject would be infected with AIDS to cure their cancer, not a guess it's an Educated Guess.
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Sorry, let me rephrase what I said.

Not exactly what they are doing. But good Educated Guess!

(Also, all educated guesses are guesses...but not all guesses are educated guesses.)
 
deathcrow said:
(Also, all educated guesses are guesses...but not all guesses are educated guesses.)
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wut
 

Just like all laptops are computers, but not all computers are laptops.

Can do that with many things....
 
I am bumping this thread since I saw this article today which reminded me of it.

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/hiv-virus-possible-cure-leukemia

"In April 2012, 7-year-old Emily “Emma” Whitehead was in the fight of her life following her second relapse of acute lymphoblastic—or lymphocytic—leukemia (ALL). The then 6-year-old’s parents and doctors turned to an unlikely source to save the young girl's life—the HIV virus."

They essentially reprogram the T-cells to fight cancer.

"The experimental technique relies on help from a disabled form of HIV because the virus is adept at carrying genetic material into T-cells so they’re able to kill off cancer cells. Those genetically altered T-cells go to work attacking cells in the body that play a role in the development of leukemia."
 
Glen said:
So what your'e saying is everyone who's got cancer needs to start fucking monkeys? Hmm.
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Or they can get cancer. That works too.
 

Cancer isn't a STD. Unless you mean inject all monkeys with cancer and kill every human that is infected with HIV/aids.
 

You could force cancer... just hold some radium.
 
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