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...antibiotics and intensive care. Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children decided to test a therapy previously used only in France. They treated stem cells taken from Rhys' defective bone marrow with the gene needed to create immune cells, which was carried by a harmless retrovirus. Now 18 months old, Rhys is leading a normal life...
...This week at the annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago, researchers and clinicians gathered to discuss developments in the fight against HIV and AIDS. And from the highly technical debates and lectures, news of a new class of AIDS drugs emerged, piquing public interest and igniting hope for AIDS patients whose bodies can no longer tolerate the often toxic drug combinations currently available...
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...scientist confidently summed up the truths of biomedicine--such truths as: epidemic diseases are things of the past, at least in so-called developed nations; a widespread outbreak of infectious disease is impossible unless the microbe is casually transmitted; the kind of virus found in animals known as the retrovirus doesn't exist in man; and no virus causes cancer in humans. By the end of the 1980s, these four truisms had hit the dustbin. Or take a more recent example: the newfound plasticity of the human brain. Until a year and half ago, it was a dogma taught...
BRING HOME THE BACON Given the serious shortage of human organs available for transplant, scientists have been hoping that parts harvested from pigs might suffice. One concern, however, has been whether a virus called Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus, which hides in pig DNA, could be transmitted to humans. Now comes reassuring news. In a study of 160 folks treated with live pig cells, not one became infected with the virus. Don't expect pig replacement parts anytime soon, though. Animal-to-human organ transplants are still years away...