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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Mon Dec 10, 2012, 10:10 AM Dec 2012

Doctors Save A Little Girl's Life By Reprograming The HIV Virus To Fight Cancer Cells

http://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-save-a-little-girls-life-by-reprograming-the-hiv-virus-to-fight-cancer-cells-2012-12

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But then her parents put Emma through an experimental treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

They infected her with a version of the HIV virus, reprogrammed to attack cancer cells.

Whitehead almost died, but the treatment worked and now she's in remission – and doing carthweels all over her house.

Grady says the treatment hasn't worked for all patients.

Emma now.

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Doctors Save A Little Girl's Life By Reprograming The HIV Virus To Fight Cancer Cells (Original Post) xchrom Dec 2012 OP

Amazing! Like some kind of Michael Crichton conception. Loudly Dec 2012 #1

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1. Amazing! Like some kind of Michael Crichton conception.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 12:39 PM

Dec 2012

Novartis is in it for the money, unfortunately.

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