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To: Red Badger
"The approach entails temporarily stopping a patient's antiretroviral therapy and removing T cells carrying the CD4 receptor. This surface protein is the doorway by which the virus gains entry into the cell. The collected T cells are exposed to zinc finger nuclease, an enzyme designed to remove the gene for a coreceptor of CD4 called CCR5. The cells are then reinfused into the patient."

Sounds a little risky. Didn't a recent movie tout a famous cure before the side effects were known?

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16 posted on 09/19/2011 2:03:31 PM PDT by fwdude ("When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...")
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To: fwdude

I’m trying to think of a reason why that would be worse than the current state of affairs under Obama.

And failing.


18 posted on 09/19/2011 2:05:44 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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