I am a fan of technology. For me, advances in technology serves as the foundation for the great transition: From the mass based top-bottom social phenomenon known as the industrial age to the niche and specialization based bottom-up dynamic called the information age-digital economy.
So when I encounter what appears as potential breakthroughs, I post them here.
Is Stem Cell therapy the cure for HIV?
From Reuters:
Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus from their bodies, researchers reported on Wednesday.Both patients, who were treated in Boston and had been on long-term drug therapy to control their HIV, received stem-cell transplants after developing lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.Since the transplants, doctors have been unable to find any evidence of HIV infection, Timothy Henrich of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston told an International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur.While it is too early to say for sure that the virus has disappeared from their bodies altogether, one patient has now been off antiretroviral drug treatment for 15 weeks and the other for seven weeks.Last July Henrich first reported that the two men had undetectable levels of HIV in their blood after their stem-cell treatment, but at that time they were still taking medicines to suppress HIV.Using stem-cell therapy is not seen as a viable option for widespread use, since it is extremely expensive, but the latest cases could open new avenues for fighting the disease, which infects about 34 million people worldwide.
There are many implications from these developments whether social, moral, commercial and etc…, nonetheless stem cell technology could just one be significant area for advances in healthcare.
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