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Gene Therapy And HIV
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... It's always been a smarter approach, to my mind, than the search for an always-elusive vaccine to an always mutating retrovirus. And this looks like a breakthrough - by accident, as so often happens. ...
Sunday Afternoon Stuff
The Agitator —
... “From the days of the Prophet Joseph Smith even until now, it is has been the doctrine of the Church, never questioned by any of the Church leaders, that the Negroes are not entitled to the full blessings of the Gospel.”
Nice op-ed in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> on the right’s turn toward ugly, anti-intellectual populism.
Swear him in as “Barack Hussen Obama.”
Bone marrow transplant accidentally uncovers . . . possible cure for AIDS?
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Encouraging News
Suburban Guerrilla —
For AIDS patients:
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.
The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops ...
