Modified HIV Cures Cancer

[TheArmyGuy]

So now we need a cure for HIV right?

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[TheChaosCarrier]

i would imagine so, yes.

[Night Fox]

The HIV they modified isn't harmful.
Why would they need a cure for it.

[TheArmyGuy]

The HIV they modified isn't harmful.
Why would they need a cure for it.

Because it would be HIVception.
But if it isn't harmful then nevermind.

[Night Fox]

If anything, it would prevent any recurring cancer of the same type.

[TheChaosCarrier]

The HIV they modified isn't harmful.
Why would they need a cure for it.

i meant the non-modified HIV still out there

[TheArmyGuy]

i meant the non-modified HIV still out there

Oh yes that still exists too.
Just 100.000 dollars directly into your bloodstream should do it.

[Shell]

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1103849

It was posted in the New England Journal of Medicine, which is pretty much the standard for most doctors

this seems extremely legit

[Skele]

It's always the last place you'd expect.

[Night Fox]

i meant the non-modified HIV still out there

I don't know what makes HIV not treatable like H1N1 or any other flu virii, but cancer isn't a virus, as far as I'm aware. Virii are fought by your cells alone. There are no other treatments like antibiotics or such. The ways your cells fight them have to adapt before they can do it. Virii aren't living either. They're essentially DNA in a protein casing. HIV might be treatable in the same way as they're doing with the cancer discussed in this topic. I think it's worth a try, has anyone done it yet?

[Skele]

I don't know what makes HIV not treatable like H1N1 or any other flu virii, but cancer isn't a virus, as far as I'm aware. Virii are fought by your cells alone. There are no other treatments like antibiotics or such. The ways your cells fight them have to adapt before they can do it. Virii aren't living either. They're essentially DNA in a protein casing. HIV might be treatable in the same way as they're doing with the cancer discussed in this topic. I think it's worth a try, has anyone done it yet?

Doesn't HIV attack your immune system directly?

There are many reasons for this. Among the most important are: (i) the host cell of HIV is a very important regulator of the immune system, so we cannot afford to indiscriminately destroy it; we have to design drugs that only destroy the infected cells. (ii) once HIV infects a host cell, it prevents the cell from displaying markers indicating that it is infected, thus making it hard for the immune system to tell whether a cell is infected or not. (iii) the virus can stay in a dormant state inside a cell for years. So even if a medicine can destroy all the infected cells, the virus reappears at a later date after the person has stopped taking the medicine. (iv) it mutates very rapidly, and learns to evade the medicines.

EDIT: HIV would probably mutate to counteract the modified T-Cells, rendering them useless.

[NotKreation]

Doesn't HIV attack your immune system directly?

White blood cells

[pocketrocket300]

White blood cells

Yeah and if you have no more white blood cells, it's impossible to fight any other disease, thus rendering the immune system useless.

[PrototypeCow]

I'm getting my wood, hammer and nails ready.

[HellHound]

Oh my god.