Mini Good News | July 07, 2009 | 36 comments

Korean scientists cure cancer (in mice) using HIV

source: http://io9.com/5308691/scientists-use-the-aids-virus-to-cure-cancer

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The HIV virus has been used to cure lung cancer in mice, after numerous tests by South Korean scientists.

Myung-Haing Cho, one of the scientists involved in the research process, modified a lentivirus, designed to prevent cancer cells from reproducing in mice's lungs by carrying a specific gene to the region.

Using nasal spray, each of the cancer-ridden mice sniffed the modified lentivirus twice a week, for a month. Results showed that the modified virus completely stopped further progression of the lung cancer, while simultaneously preserving the non-cancerous tissue. Existing cancer cells died off without further therapy.
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36 comments // Korean scientists cure cancer (in mice) using HIV

  • rosyjane
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      rosyjane  

    • "I remember why i am in vain....it is because i have an accident and my brain got n injury...might be cancerous and might be not...then i choose to have an HIV transferred to me year 1999 due to the hatred to those drug syndicates and thieves who sabotage me using drugs...is it possible that accidentally my brain have cure and my HIV using one medicine only?

      If it is possible, then the thieves will died because of the virus i put in my blood."-JB

    • 2 years ago
  • transfire
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      transfire  

    • Glad they've finally made some progress in this area. It was obvious to me (that it might be a possible) when I first learned how HIV works, back in the 80s.

      I've also recently heard scientists have had some success with another idea I had back then --cure HIV using a blood filter.

    • 2 years ago
  • stevieuk
  • thought23
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      thought23  

    • I think this is awesome- if it works for larger mammals and humans.

      I am surprised that they were able to use a retrovirus for clinical therapy. I was under the impression that they mutated too frequently for any sort of manipulation.

    • 2 years ago
  • ocanada
  • Viciouspike
  • ras_menelik
  • RaceBannon
  • Valence
  • rockstarmillionaire
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      rockstarmillionaire  

    • Cancer recovery has already been discovered years ago through eating primarily raw fruits and vegetables.

      Dr. Lorraine Day reversed her severe, advanced cancer by rebuilding her immune system by natural therapies, so her body could heal itself.

      Dr. Day is an internationally acclaimed orthopedic trauma surgeon and best selling author who was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and is recognized world-wide as an AIDS expert.

    • 2 years ago
  • bishopobispo
  • rockstarmillionaire
  • Valence
  • Weepowopo
  • thought23
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      thought23  
    • rockstarmillionaire:

      While Lorraine Day may once have been a renowned doctor she retired in 1989 after 20 years of practice (including her residency). Her reason was possible personal infection with AIDS via blood contact.

      An herbal/natural/dietary cancer treatment may exist and it may have worked for her (after the extensive surgery she underwent post-diagnosis) but such a course of action will probably not work for the general populace. There are too many other variables to take into account.

    • 2 years ago
  • rockstarmillionaire
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      rockstarmillionaire  
    • rockstarmillionaire:

      You don't have any information to say if her treatment would not work for the general population. Such treatment has worked for her and others on many other diseases such as AIDS, Leukemia and Fibromyalgia. It is definitely worth anyones time to look into.

    • 2 years ago
  • Buddha2112
  • CalgarC
  • NotCaleb
  • crazy_french
  • thewarnerla
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      thewarnerla  

    • so the US is going to back a plan that this method is tried and tested on all north koreans before going into effect. golf courses may see a sharp decline in the number of people using the driving range every night.

      it would suck if the AIDS virus mutates.

    • 2 years ago
  • doctorx
  • Weepowopo
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      Weepowopo  

    • Pretty cool break through.

      Now start on all the other types of cancer.

      Then finish the cure.

      Then save lives.

      Then cure HIV. Since they are working with it too.

    • 2 years ago
  • macgarys1
  • bishopobispo
  • dablaq
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      dablaq  
    • macgarys1:

      I dunno what to say. I cant stop laughing on your comment.
      "To prevent cancer, please get yourself hiv"
      "you got cancer? we've got hiv for you"

      anyone wants to trademark the line

    • 2 years ago
  • shimmyshim07
  • meretricis
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      meretricis  
    • shimmyshim07:

      That's the million dollar ethical question isn't it.

      But if we view it like this; that if the current run of disease threatening man can't kill us, something else will. Nature will find a way, either way.

      Therefor, this is simply 'progress'.

    • 2 years ago
  • islek
  • jeckersly316
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      jeckersly316  

    • I have been waiting for the arrival of some fantastically catastrophic event so I could see if I would be able to survive if zombies attacked or a huge monster were rummaging through my city.

    • 2 years ago
  • TenGig
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      TenGig  

    • Actually, the virus they use still has the "bad parts" in it. However, they've crippled it's genome so it can't reproduce. Basically, they cut it's nuts off. So it can infect one time, then it dies. That's why the mice in the experiments have to breathe in a dose every day.

      And even though the events in "I am Legend" were fictional, there is no reason to discount the possibility that this type of research gets out of control. It's a very very very very tiny probability, because the virus can not survive for long outside the lab, and it can't re-infect others. Still ....makes you go .. hmmmm.

    • 2 years ago
  • sunnytimes
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      sunnytimes  

    • "Well I was saying the same thing, but I believe it to be HIV with the bad parts removed. Don't we remember though in I Am Legend the last time we messed with a crazy bad disease and tried using it to cure Cancer?"

      that was a movie btw .. not real ..

    • 2 years ago
  • Rex_Raptor
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      Rex_Raptor  

    • Well I was saying the same thing, but I believe it to be HIV with the bad parts removed. Don't we remember though in I Am Legend the last time we messed with a crazy bad disease and tried using it to cure Cancer?

      All I'm saying is, keep the tests going for another few years so we know everything there is to know about this strain of HIV...hopefully we didn't cause it to mutate in a way that could end humanity.

    • 2 years ago
  • Weepowopo
  • kevinthedude
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      kevinthedude  
    • Rex_Raptor:

      Too bad in the book cancer wasn't involved and the people were junkie half-vampires and vampires, not zombies. And a million other differences. If Will Smith wasn't in the movie, it would've sucked.

    • 2 years ago
  • jeckersly316
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