Nov 19, 2014

The Cure for Aids

So in 2004, a man who'd been testing postive for aids since 1995... tested negative:

http://nymag.com/health/features/aids-cure-2011-6/index1.html

It wasn't because he took a certain aids medication.  It was because he had a bone marrow transfusion to help him with his leukemia.  A significant portion of europeans are resistant to HIV due to genes that make their antibodies have different CCR5 receptors, meaning HIV essentially cant affect the antibodies.  The donor he got the bone marrow from happened to have a very potent version of these anti-aids genes.

Doctors saw multiple, consistant negative tests for HIV in this patient, and obviously, some light bulbs wents off.

So began research, and in 2009, a human trial began.  Results came out in 2014.

"HIV RNA became undetectable in one of four patients who could be evaluated. The blood level of HIV DNA decreased in most patients."

Read the article on said study below:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1300662

Nov 11, 2014

Buy lockheed martin stock

not sure if you can or w/e but they are expecting to have working fusion in 1 year and a prototype up by 2017.