AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow 118
suraj.sun writes "The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease. Dr. Kathleen Collins of the University of Michigan and her colleagues report in this week's edition of the journal Nature Medicine that the HIV virus can infect long-lived bone marrow cells that eventually convert into blood cells. The virus is dormant in the bone marrow cells, she said, but when those progenitor cells develop into blood cells, it can be reactivated and cause renewed infection. The virus kills the new blood cells and then moves on to infect other cells, said. In recent years, drugs have reduced AIDS deaths sharply, but patients need to keep taking the medicines for life or the infection comes back, Dr. Collins said."
Re:Uh This is a Surprise? (Score:3, Funny)
$genome = str_replace($retroVirus, $superPower, $genome);
Just make sure you get the values in your variables correct, and that your body is upgraded to PHP v4.1 or later
What's all this biology? (Score:4, Funny)
Gosh, doesn't the submitter realize that Slashdotters are computer geeks and not biology geeks? Use analogies we can understand, like comparing this "hiding" virus to a rootkit or something.
The HIV virus... (Score:4, Funny)
Also known as the human immunodeficiency virus virus.
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:this is one nasty little bugger (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How about a bone marrow transplant? (Score:1, Funny)
So, in a way, AIDS is a rootkit infection.
Re:How about a bone marrow transplant? (Score:2, Funny)
Oh I don't know...
Improve Phizer's and GSK's margins?
Yeah, yeah, but you did ask what good it would do. That's all I could think up.
Re:How about a bone marrow transplant? (Score:3, Funny)
What do you want, a decree from God or something? We have some pretty large mountains of scientific evidence.
Sorry but you're wrong (Score:3, Funny)
They never made any sequels to Highlander.