November 11, 2008

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS. "A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61." [Via]
posted by homunculus 16 years ago
  • That is amazing stuff. Hope it's in our lifetime.
  • Just. Wow.
  • Did anyone else laugh in shock at the line: "...researchers discovered that some gay men astonishingly remained uninfected despite..."? It probably should have read "...some gay men, despite engaging in risky sexual behavior with hundreds of partners, astonishingly remained uninfected..." considering that the carriage return divorced the qualifiers for "astonishingly" from the word for a split second; enough time for me to think I was about to see an after school special. The more you know.
  • Yeah, that did make me go "Hmmm."
  • Wasn't this the topic of a short story or a part of a different story and what the hell was it called and who wrote it?
  • My butcher told me about this the other week. He likes to titillate people with rumors (the previous one was about a rapper being shot to death outside a Miami nightclub, which didn't titillate much as we'd never heard of the rapper). So what if a bone marrow transplant works to rid one person of AIDS? It's not a workable solution for the millions of people who need to manage their disease.
  • Perhaps you're thinking of William Gibson's 'Virtual Light', gomi? There's a subplot in it about J. D. Shapely, a gay man that is discovered to have naturally developed a resistance to the AIDS virus, from which a vaccine is created.