HIV Positive Man Cured

[Jay Chow]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/1...ll-transplant/

[Andrew Maxwell]

Very cool! HIV and leukemia that must of been damn rough to go through!

[Josh Passini]

Wow thats crazy. Amazing shit is happening everyday. Awesome

[NelsonLucca]

this has actually happened a few times, different ways. i guess it's not talked about because they say its a case by case and not 100 %

[Jay Chow]

Supposedly he went blind during the procedure

[Dustin C.]

thats cool! the sad thing is they have had the cure to cancer and many other diseases for years but it is not allowed in the USA due to the amount of money it makes, i know personally at least four people that had stage 3 and 4 cancer and got cured outside of this country (one of them cured in the 70's) by American doctors banned from practicing in the USA. Greed continues to destroy humanity

[Ben]

That is incredible.

[Matt "Gumby" Glach]

sweet, i hate how fox news spins it tho, better more scientific explanation... http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/hiv...67_19563.shtml

[Jason Hyatt]

Interesting. The CCR5-delta32 allele has been known to impact HIV transmission and progression for quite a while, but this is the first CCR5-delta32 stem-cell transplant I'm aware of. Very, very cool; awesome post!

Side note: the incidence and prevalence of the allele is a classic study in natural selection. The CCR5-delta32 allele is found almost exclusively in those of European descent. It emerged about 700 years ago when there was a mutation (a 32-base pair deletion) in the gene that codes for CCR5. CCR5 is a protein expressed on the surface of CD4 T-cells that HIV uses as a co-receptor. The 32-base pair deletion means that those heterozygous for the allele express much less CCR5 and those homozygous for the mutation express none at all. As it turns, out smallpox also uses the CCR5 protein as a co-receptor. The epidemic of smallpox that raged through Europe almost 1000 years ago resulted in a selective pressure that conferred a benefit to having less CCR5 expressed on CD4 T-cells. Those with the mutation had significantly increased immunity to smallpox. This allowed the gene to spread through Europe and it's why some people today have an immunity to a disease that didn't even exist 700 years ago. If anybody is interested in the long version (with math and everything!) just ask. Biology is awesome! Dorks of the world unite!

[AJ Camacho]

He's cured? Are they positive?