Art imitates life.....

[acealive1]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080125/ts_alt_afp/sciencebiotechusresearch_080125001832


it happened in judge dredd,and now its happening for real

[Mike70]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080125/ts_alt_afp/sciencebiotechusresearch_080125001832


it happened in judge dredd,and now its happening for real

wow that is cool and kinda scary and has some huge, huge implications. cool article.

[Danny]

i doubt genetically engineered soldiers, if we got as far as creating lifeforms we'd probably create some kind of sea algea that lived of way more greenhouse gases than anything out there that turned into a viable fuel when it died and would live on the seas to blot out some of the suns rays reflecting off the oceans.

...and then they would turn people into mutants and it all goes to **** form there.

or al gore will create a real manbearpig and just laugh at how noone listened till it was too late.

[Marie]

I think the next big market for genitic engineering will be to make this happen intentionally:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/24/2145289.htm

Teen takes on donor's immune system
By medical reporter Sophie Scott and staff reporters

Posted Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:30am AEDT
Updated Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:49am AEDT

A 15-year-old Australian liver transplant patient has defied modern medicine by taking on her donor's immune system.

Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant after she suffered liver failure. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital were amazed to find the teenager's blood group had changed to the donor's blood type.

Further tests revealed the stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated her bone marrow.

Dr Michael Stormon says he and his colleagues were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs.

"We consulted widely throughout the hospital and then looked at the medical literature and consulted colleagues around the world to see if anyone had seen this kind of thing before," he said.

"No-one had, so we were stunned and amazed."

Dr Stormon says his team is now trying to identify how the phenomenon happened and whether it can be replicated.

"That's probably easier said than done... I think it's a long shot," he said. "I think it's a unique system of events whereby this happened.

"We postulate there's a number of different issues - the type of liver failure that she had, some of the drugs that we use early on to suppress the immune system and also that she suffered an infection with a virus called CMV, or cytomegalovirus, which can also suppress the immune system."

Anti-rejection drugs, known as immunosuppresants, have significant side effects, including serious infections and toxic effects on organs.

Dr Stormon says doctors are trying to identify which patients could come off the treatment.

"They may not, like Demi, change their blood group and change their whole immune system and their bone marrow but there are a small percentage of patients who seem to get away with not needing immunosuppresion," he said.

"But the difficulty is trying to identify which ones you should stop immunosuppression on because there's always that fear and risk that over many months or years, rejection can still occur."

The case has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

[Danny]

that could mean a big chance in immunisation, right now its injecting you with a small portion fo the virus to fight off right?, and that doesnt allways work, well for exmaple, im immune to one fo the strains that we had to get jabs for at school, only one of 3 out of 2000 that were in fact, and if they developed a way to just like give blood or something and actually pass on the immunity from people who had wouldnt that be safer than current imunisation?

though in hindsight thatd probably just maen a virus would mutate to over come such defenses right?

[mista_mo]

when can I expect my Adeptus Astartes then?