Medieval Plague May Explain Resistance to HIV
had this diagram:
Well it's a neat diagram.....
Posted on 03/11/2005 10:15:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
Cute little guy...
This article just shows that virtually any stem cell, not just fetal stem cells, can be engineered for the desired effect....
But the crowd that wants you to believe that only fetal stem cells have promise don't want you to know that.
"harmless virus to deliver stem cells containing a corrective gene."
How the heck can a virus deliver a cell?
yeah they must spend better or something....
I really liked the idea of using fat cells for stem cell research. I have a big donation to make to that :)
The virus is just like a bus....it can handle passengers.
/sarcasm
the therapy has also killed more kids than it has helped, but I guess they conveniently overlooked that little fact in this little accolade
Medieval Plague May Explain Resistance to HIV
had this diagram:
Well it's a neat diagram.....
the correct form of the human gene is spliced into the rna of the "harmless virus". The altered "harmless virus" is used to infect the bone marrow cells. The "harmless virus" rna will replace the defective existing genes (within the patients extracted bone marrow tissue cells) with the new "correct form" gene. This takes place in literally millions of one at a time transactions.
I am not disputing you, but do you have some support for that statement?
ummmm...link?
(This article appeared in the New York Times on October 4, 2002)
Trials are Halted on a Gene Therapy
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 - Officials in the United States and France said today that they had suspended four gene therapy experiments because the treatment, which cured a 3-year-old boy of a fatal immune deficiency, may have given him an illness similar to leukemia.
Scientists conducting the research said it was not clear whether the boy, who was treated as an infant in France, was made sick by the therapy. But officials at the Food and Drug Administration said they suspected that the experiment, which until now had been hailed as the only unequivocal gene therapy success, was responsible.
"It is not absolutely a definitive thing, but the preliminary data that we have leads us to suspect that it surely isn't a coincidence," said Dr. Philip Noguchi, the agency official who oversees gene therapy research. "It's a sobering experience, but we are doing what should be done."
The experiments - one in France, three in the United States - were suspended in early September. But the news was not made public until today, authorities said, to give the researchers time to notify the families of 14 children enrolled in the trials.
The move is yet another major setback for the fledgling field of gene therapy, which involves using viruses to introduce healthy genes into cells. The field is still reeling from the death of Jesse Gelsinger, 18, who lost his life three years ago while undergoing gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania
hmmmm....ok....
I guess they need to continue to study it and figure out why it worked for some and not for others....
there isnt a reason to abandon it completely however. There are definitive benefits to making this process work correctly for the patients.
I do believe another child in the US died just a couple of weeks ago, but I only remember reading about it, so not sure where he or she was located
And they need to continue to study it, as I said....
well, I dont necessarily disagree, but they need to be honest about the research, and not be torturing kids if that indeed is what they are doing. They used to give kids growth hormones to make them taller, but wound up giving them some awful disease.
Kids, and I know you agree, shouldnt be guinea pigs for science papers
My sister would agree with you. She lost three baby boys to this condition and one of her daughters had a boy who was saved after a bone marrow transplant after an exhaustive search.
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