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Many times when I see this kind of articles about cure for HIV and cancer I do some research, get to the page of the project that work on the cure and understan

Many times when I see this kind of articles about cure for HIV and cancer I do some research, get to the page of the project that work on the cure and understand that we are still really far from getting to a point wherer there is a cure and it's just a marketing tricks they do to raise funds for their research I support this kind of innovation and understand that the marketing buzz is necessary for the projects to raise funds just keep in mind that those titles sometimes are pretty far from reality

rusticpenn 7y ago
"May Offer Path to cure HIV" The title seems to be pretty ok in my opinion
- lexapro 7y ago
  Yes, almost everything may offer a path to cure HIV.
  - t0astbread 7y ago
    That's how research works
glenneroo 7y ago
> "It's not a home run at this point, but getting to first base is really critical for this technology," says Carl June , a professor in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania.
dogma1138 7y ago
Unlike cancer we do know the mutation which protects against HIV and about 2-4% of the population has it so it’s somewhat much simpler if you can actually use it. That particular receptor which the mutation affects is also what some HIV drugs especially the post exposure ones target. Edit: looks like 2-4% of Europeans have the mutation world wide population is closer to 1% https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV
- esturk 7y ago
  Exactly. A Chinese doctor was ostracized for effectively programming a zygote to be immune to HIV. Theoretically this should work for human adults. And not everyone need it too once a community achieve herd immunity.
not_a_cop75 7y ago
Yeah. It would be nice if journalism degrees in general would offer classes to help students understand how to give the public a standard and expected way to understand where research really is, because at current they only seem to be able to describe that research on something is happening, and even then not always very well. Or maybe a greater degree of ethics? But classes like this might not have any affect unless there are teeth in laws that prosecute knowingly publishing falsehoods.

rusticpenn 7y ago

"May Offer Path to cure HIV" The title seems to be pretty ok in my opinion

lexapro 7y ago
Yes, almost everything may offer a path to cure HIV.
- t0astbread 7y ago
  That's how research works

glenneroo 7y ago

> "It's not a home run at this point, but getting to first base is really critical for this technology," says Carl June , a professor in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania.

dogma1138 7y ago

Unlike cancer we do know the mutation which protects against HIV and about 2-4% of the population has it so it’s somewhat much simpler if you can actually use it. That particular receptor which the mutation affects is also what some HIV drugs especially the post exposure ones target. Edit: looks like 2-4% of Europeans have the mutation world wide population is closer to 1% https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV

esturk 7y ago
Exactly. A Chinese doctor was ostracized for effectively programming a zygote to be immune to HIV. Theoretically this should work for human adults. And not everyone need it too once a community achieve herd immunity.

not_a_cop75 7y ago

Yeah. It would be nice if journalism degrees in general would offer classes to help students understand how to give the public a standard and expected way to understand where research really is, because at current they only seem to be able to describe that research on something is happening, and even then not always very well. Or maybe a greater degree of ethics? But classes like this might not have any affect unless there are teeth in laws that prosecute knowingly publishing falsehoods.