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Yes, this is real. Doctors have injected a six year old cancer patient with the HIV virus. No, they aren't monsters, they have actually saved her life!
6 year old Emma was dying from
Leukemia, and her prognosis didn't give her much time. The problem was
that her immune system was not able to fight off the quickly multiplying
cancer cells, and they were ravishing this poor girl's body from the
inside.
Enter a team of doctors with a revolutionary plan: First, they harvest some of Emma's white blood cells (T cells),
that are responsible for fighting the cancer. Then they genetically
modify them to 'see' and react to the cancer cells. The HIV virus,
engineered NOT to cause the disease, was used to reprogram the immune
cells in a way that is still too complicated for us to do cell by cell.
But the HIV virus, because if its method of operation, can reprogram
cells quickly, just like it does when it causes the disease.
So in this case, the HIV
virus is actually the hero. Who would have believed it? Watch this video
to get more details about this breakthrough in medicine
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