A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
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A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
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Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#2This is the real deal, though it isn't practical at large scale. My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work.
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#3This is the real deal, though it isn't practical at large scale. My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work.
>My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work.
It's described in this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751 and my follow up comment.
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#4*impractical
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#5This is the real deal, though it isn't practical at large scale. My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work.
"experts" you mean.
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#6This is the real deal, though it isn't practical at large scale. My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work.
Sounds like this idea predates your partner, but more generally, the skepticism he encountered would be a feature of science, not a bug. Scientists are paid to be skeptical.
(I know that you probably know this, but I think most people would take your comment to mean that establishment scientists are all incompetent curmudgeons, irrationally resistant to "outsider" ideas.)
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#7What makes it so impractical? Isn't a bone marrow transplant just an injection with the new cells? It doesn't even require surgery right?
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#8I bet the first designer babies will all have this CCR5 mutation and will be immune to HIV.
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#9What makes it so impractical? Isn't a bone marrow transplant just an injection with the new cells? It doesn't even require surgery right? Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm no expert either, but I think the problem is that suitable donors are extremely rare -- and most of them would prefer not to give up their bone marrow to some random stranger, thanks very much.
update: Oh, and a bone marrow transplant is a horrible procedure which kills 30% of recipients.
Re: A very real, though slightly impractical, cure for AIDS
#10What makes it so impractical? Isn't a bone marrow transplant just an injection with the new cells? It doesn't even require surgery right? Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm no expert either, but I think the problem is that suitable donors are extremely rare -- and most of them would prefer not to give up their bone marrow to some random stranger, thanks very much. update: Oh, and a bone marrow transplant is a horrible procedure which kills 30% of recipients.
Yeah... for it to work you basically have to completely destroy the immune system of the transplant target and they recover in a bubble.