Two more men cured of HIV

[Eos]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48338421.../#.UBLlG7Se5c8

Two men unlucky enough to get both HIV and cancer have been seemingly cleared of the virus, raising hope that science may yet find a way to cure for the infection that causes AIDS, 30 years into the epidemic.

Read article for fullness.

[Flonne]

Nice as a "linking case", so to speak; giving them somewhere to work on better treatments, but this treatment itself, as they even said in the article, is not a great cure. Extremely painful and expensive and impossible to perform on millions of people. A great second step toward a full cure, though.

[Eos]

Somehwat implies that gene therapy could have similar success with a far less invasive application.

[Flonne]

Somehwat implies that gene therapy could have similar success with a far less invasive application.

Yeah, later in the article it did. Pretty interesting to see the amount of progress they are making, both on HIV and on cancer.

[Duelman]

I'm going to read the article after I get my coffee ready, reserving this space for a hell yes to humanity.

Ok I read it: It made my bones hurt.

[Moonlapse]

Is there a journal article published relating to these cases? If so I am interested in reading it.

[hadriel]

Paper's not out yet. They're just showing their results at a conference. Paper will come in due time. Nature has talked about this a little bit (but not about these 2 patients), and if a paper does come out they would probably talk about it again, of which I'll let you know.

Not a cure for the everyday people yet. These results merely back-up the previous Berlin case, but nevertheless does give some hope for the future.

Hadriel