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This falls under the category of “So weird, it’s gotta be true”:
Wired News: Altered HIV Attacks Mice Tumors
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks cancer tumors in mice.
The research is a step forward for the beleaguered field of gene therapy, which has enjoyed isolated successes and suffered repeated setbacks over the past 20 years. But tinkering and fine tuning will be the key to a successful gene therapy, UCLA researchers believe. They published their study in the Feb. 13 issue of Nature Medicine.
does it also give people HIV? Because…well, that wouldn’t be a perfect cure
No… if you would read the article, it states that: “People might wonder if it’s scary to use HIV as a therapy,” said Irving Chen, who led the UCLA team. “But in actuality we have completely removed 80 percent of the virus. So really it’s just a carrier.”
And who said anything about it being a perfect cure? It’s just an interesting article on research, nothing more.