OMG, still waiting on the part for my car.
'Shindig'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yeah, apparently there are less than a few thousand potential donors world wide. But still, once we know one means of curing aids, maybe we can something that uses a more available resource.
Yeah, apparently there are less than a few thousand potential donors world wide.
Either you or the article have a figure wrong, the article said:
Roughly one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have inherited the mutation from both parents
Of course, if we were CLONING these cells...
Not to mention that bone marrow transplants have a 30% fatality rate.
Oh I thought it was less THAN a thousand. OK, that is huge. And yeah we night to start cloning the bone marrow. Fuck anyone who opposes cloning in those circumstances.
Not to mention that bone marrow transplants have a 30% fatality rate.
Yeah, that's the stickler Fauci focuses on. The person it appears to have worked on was already dying of lukemia so it was worth doing. Living as long and as well as one can with current HIV medications a 20-30% chance of death seems not great. Of course, maybe the fatality rate goes down when someone isn't already weakend by cancer, who knows?
There is a lot of work to be done -- but there could be an actual cure for actual AIDS which is pretty amazing.
Skipping, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but Grey's Anatomy isn't airing until 1:06 AM here because of football. I'm not sure what other areas are affected by this.
Fuck anyone who opposes cloning in those circumstances.
I know, right?
I had a friend die of AIDS nine years ago. He'd apparently been positive for years before he and his partner knew and his partner never contracted it. We basically assume the partner has the gene. There was some talk of him being included in a study.
Oh I thought it was less THAN a thousand. OK, that is huge. And yeah we night to start cloning the bone marrow. Fuck anyone who opposes cloning in those circumstances.
This is the reason I'm very much opposed to knee-jerk legislation banning human cloning, well not this specifically, but medical cures in general.