In the article it states that they are fairly sure that some HIV still exists in the patient's body. Although none has been detectable in blood samples for over 600 days.
They are not completely sure if the extreme chemotherapy and other stuff they do to kill your bone marrow just happened to kill off most of the HIV, or if the new marrow has in fact started producing the new white blood cells and the HIV simply can not infect them.
It also states that something along the lines of around 1% of the population has this genetic mutation.
They cite another case that a person was giving a bone marrow transplant with similar chemotherapy, but they died shortly afterward from a tumor. No traces of HIV could be found in this persons body, but they are unsure if the transplanted marrow had the mutation that this article is about.
On a final note, the article states that most people do not survive the extreme chemotherapy required to kill off bone marrow and that it is only given to late state cancer patients.
Due to the low amount of donors (in the world) with the "HIV-Free" mutation and the extreme risk involved with marrow transplants this is probably not going to be "functionally" curing you, proactively or retroactively, of HIV any time soon.
"They've been with Rare through the good (Wizards and Warriors) the great (GoldenEye), and the disappointing (Perfect Dark Zero)."
What the hell? Me, many people I know, and many professional game reviewing sites and magazines all seem to agree that Perfect Dark Zero was a great game.
I play the game in tile based and sometimes classic mode and it is fantastic, I do "get" the charm. You use your imagination. I was not specific enough in my first post, I meant if it was ever fully rendered and well made into a three dimensional modern game that could take what I see in my imagination and perfectly capture it. Which I doubt is going to happen anytime soon.
Vultures eye and the Slash'EM mod (I think vultures claw) really hurt the game for someone who has never played it before I think. A game like this is similar to a MUD in that it is (would be) extremely hard to satisfactorily make a modern game (with all the pretty eye candy) which captures the gameplay perfectly and would still hold appeal to the hardcore type gamers I think this game tends to appeal to.
I just started playing Nethack, it is such a fantastic game. If I went here I would get smoked.
If something like this could ever be made graphical I would eat it alive.
That the game is not delayed impossibly long like 2, that tons of features I was looking forward to are not removed like 2, and that the game looks at least as good as 2 was supposed to look.
Even as different as it was from the hype, Halo 2 still rocked, and I would bet that Halo 3 will as well.
I think firefox 2.0 is great though myself. The spellcheck alone was worth the update to me. It is just as functional as the last one so far for me. I am not really a browser power user though, so perhaps it is dysfunctional for those types.
As far as I have seen all the armor scales to both the horde and the alliance. The textures are already not awesome in quality (pretty good for the size of the game though) it does not seem unreasonable that they could just widen them some for the character width.
Is it just me or even with the first posters color saturation add-on the back, forward, stop and refresh buttons are oddly blurred? It hurts my eyes a bit:(
I would like to thank the creators of this web browser though. It has more than doubled the time between OS reinstalls.
The built in spell check is a godsend!
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In the article it states that they are fairly sure that some HIV still exists in the patient's body. Although none has been detectable in blood samples for over 600 days.
They are not completely sure if the extreme chemotherapy and other stuff they do to kill your bone marrow just happened to kill off most of the HIV, or if the new marrow has in fact started producing the new white blood cells and the HIV simply can not infect them.
It also states that something along the lines of around 1% of the population has this genetic mutation.
They cite another case that a person was giving a bone marrow transplant with similar chemotherapy, but they died shortly afterward from a tumor. No traces of HIV could be found in this persons body, but they are unsure if the transplanted marrow had the mutation that this article is about.
On a final note, the article states that most people do not survive the extreme chemotherapy required to kill off bone marrow and that it is only given to late state cancer patients.
Due to the low amount of donors (in the world) with the "HIV-Free" mutation and the extreme risk involved with marrow transplants this is probably not going to be "functionally" curing you, proactively or retroactively, of HIV any time soon.
Youtube link! http://youtube.com/watch?v=29361_XFpTc Lets get this featured!
She could make money with that video, just call it "waltz of the penises".
God bless you kind sir.
Guess where I read about it? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/135820 7&from=rss
"They've been with Rare through the good (Wizards and Warriors) the great (GoldenEye), and the disappointing (Perfect Dark Zero)."
What the hell? Me, many people I know, and many professional game reviewing sites and magazines all seem to agree that Perfect Dark Zero was a great game.
Still a shame they are leaving.
"You would have no way to compare NVIDIA and ATI cards apart from the quality of the packaging."
So I guess things like pixel pipelines have nothing to do with performance, according this this guy.
I play the game in tile based and sometimes classic mode and it is fantastic, I do "get" the charm. You use your imagination. I was not specific enough in my first post, I meant if it was ever fully rendered and well made into a three dimensional modern game that could take what I see in my imagination and perfectly capture it. Which I doubt is going to happen anytime soon. Vultures eye and the Slash'EM mod (I think vultures claw) really hurt the game for someone who has never played it before I think. A game like this is similar to a MUD in that it is (would be) extremely hard to satisfactorily make a modern game (with all the pretty eye candy) which captures the gameplay perfectly and would still hold appeal to the hardcore type gamers I think this game tends to appeal to.
I just started playing Nethack, it is such a fantastic game. If I went here I would get smoked. If something like this could ever be made graphical I would eat it alive.
That the game is not delayed impossibly long like 2, that tons of features I was looking forward to are not removed like 2, and that the game looks at least as good as 2 was supposed to look. Even as different as it was from the hype, Halo 2 still rocked, and I would bet that Halo 3 will as well.
Looks like the server has already barfed.
I think firefox 2.0 is great though myself. The spellcheck alone was worth the update to me. It is just as functional as the last one so far for me. I am not really a browser power user though, so perhaps it is dysfunctional for those types.
They never took my toothpaste.
How can six words make stories?
As far as I have seen all the armor scales to both the horde and the alliance. The textures are already not awesome in quality (pretty good for the size of the game though) it does not seem unreasonable that they could just widen them some for the character width.
Is it just me or even with the first posters color saturation add-on the back, forward, stop and refresh buttons are oddly blurred? It hurts my eyes a bit:( I would like to thank the creators of this web browser though. It has more than doubled the time between OS reinstalls. The built in spell check is a godsend!
I bet they could get more support if Jackson was the director instead of the producer.