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GMO Herpes vs severe cancer pain
Posted by ERV on September 17, 2012 What happens when the pain gets to be too much? What happens when the drugs stop working? The physicians are giving you as much as you can take without dying, and youre still living with 7, 8, 9 levels of pain, every waking moment? Some of the talk behind physician assisted suicide is to let…
First viral gene therapy vector approved– Out of the trials, into the patients
Posted by ERV on July 23, 2012 Domesticating wild organisms– Whether its domesticating teosinte or aurochs, bending wild organisms to our will is always a game-changing event in human history. The domestication of viruses is no exception. We now live in a world where small-pox, a virus that once wiped out entire continents, is now functionally extinct. Generations of people see iron…
GMO Virus for Nicotine Addiction
Posted by ERV on July 10, 2012 I used to think gene therapy was an absurd ‘solution’ for HIV/AIDS. Well, ‘absurd’ is putting it lightly. I thought gene therapy was a perverted solution– Even if it ‘worked’, it would only be available for the richest people in the richest countries, not the millions and millions and millions of individuals living in poverty…
Gene therapy might actually work for HIV-1 infection
Posted by ERV on May 25, 2012 If you had asked me 6 years ago about using gene therapy to fight HIV/AIDS, I would have given you a nice rant about how expensive it is, how non-viable it is in the places that need anti-HIV strategies the most, how dangerous it can be, and I would have been damn offended you even…
Gene therapy for Hemophilia B
Posted by ERV on December 14, 2011 For the millionth time– Viruses are not just pathogens that make us sick. In the modern world, viruses have been domesticated, and are now used to treat/cure diseases. Example #gazillion: Hemophilia B: Adenovirus-Associated Virus Vector-Mediated Gene Transfer in Hemophilia B This study is far from perfect, and of course very preliminary, but still very exciting.…