cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62853947
Researchers at Oslo University Hospital have closely examined the man’s blood, bone marrow, and intestines without finding any trace of active HIV virus.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.sciencenorway.no/aids-diseases-hiv/the-oslo-patient-is-the-seventh-man-in-the-world-likely-cured-of-hiv-offers-hope/2649112
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The article doesn’t go into it, but the university’s published perspective adds that the cure is that a bone marrow transplant he got for non-HIV reasons turned out to come from a person with natural HIV immunity.
That is consistent with the other cured patients.
The question is, how do we synthesize this as a global cure? Also, bone marrow transplants seem intense. We need to figure out a better delivery method for this to scale.
Its not a drug, it’s a procedure. It’s very expensive and risky.
And it can be compared to modern antiretroviral drugs which are mass manufactured. They can absolutely be difficult to afford and to ensure compliance, but they’re relatively accessible as far as any long term medication is in most places, thanks in large part to the queer community in first world countries and NGO-governmental cooperation to deal with the third world HIV epidemic. We still have a ways to go with it, but HIV+ people who have proper treatment are able to live long and full lives and have no risk of transmission once viral loads are undetectable.
If you could aspire to solve one thing for humanity, what would it be?
It’s okay if it’s not the most logical thing but rather something that has impacted you or your loved ones, etc. I.e. Something that would drive your passion and pursuit of solving it.
Is greed an answer? I’d go with our greed.
UBI.
I don’t have much imagination or intelligence but I’m pretty sure there’s a million Einstein’s out there who could be solving global warming, deforestation, rising salinity, desertification, leoukemia, species extinction, landlordism, gridscale energy storage and a host of social problems if they weren’t broke-ass and forced to work in soul-crushing retail 9 hours a day just to survive and eat.
Maybe energy? Or food? Housing? Just… That “one thing”™️ that seems to be the biggest cause for everyone to be at war all the fucking time.
Sorry of I miss something, but what does that have to do with the topic of this article?
Your comment kinda sound what a clueless LLM would post on r/AskReddit to farm karma (no offense if you are human, it is just what it looks like).
The question was tangential; the question came to mind when reading the submission. Scientists devoting much of their life to work spur medical breakthrough: to what would you dedicate your life?
Not LLM – though even if I was, the question remains – what would you do!?
There are so many, but a cure for autoimmune diseases like lupus would be incredible. My father’s side of the family is plagued by lupus, and I have it. It killed both of my grandparents and will like kill my father and uncle. It’ll probably also kill me.
If I could cure lupus and diseases like it, I would. I’d want to save the world from the suffering it causes.
Susceptibility to propaganda.
