Korean scientists cure cancer (in mice) using HIV

Take your pick: Cancer or HIV.

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.

"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 ..

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.

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.

Huh? Well, didn't see THAT one coming.

I guess a negative and a negative really does make something positive, but are genetics suppose to be play with like this?

That's why i'm going to have unprotected sex as much as i can... Cancer runs in my family :)

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.

This type of gene delivery (via a lentiviral vector) has been going on for YEARS!!! Nothing new here...

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.

so would you get hiv if its only a nasal spray or w/e
?

why isnt this on the news
have we found the cure..?

When you say "The HIV virus" you are saying "The Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus"

It makes no sense.

i rather cure it with unprotected sex :D :D

Korea 'cures' everything...

Let's see this bullshit hold up in a lab outside their borders.

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.

Irony.

doctor: I can cure your cancer sir, but there's a catch....
are you a fan of magic johnson?

OMG!

Animal testing is GREAT!!!

Scary but promising.

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.

it all looks good, its a result and a step in the right direction

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.

"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