“An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology [Crispr] can stop the [HIV] virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection.” It seems to me we’ve heard this argument before—just take a gene-altering medical treatment and magically, a disease will disappear. And it’s completely safe and effective. . .Oh, that’s right. The government, institutions, and scientists told us that the gene-therapy mRNA Covid-19 “vaccines” would prevent anyone who got them from getting Covid. It was 100% safe and effective, with no questions allowed.
And we all know, over 750,000 deaths, an increase in Covid vulnerability, and millions of vaccine injuries later, how well that worked out.
“[WIRED, emphasis added] IN JULY, AN HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to snip the AIDS-causing virus out of his cells. For an hour, he was hooked up to an IV bag that pumped the experimental treatment directly into his bloodstream. The one-time infusion is designed to carry the gene-editing tools to the man’s infected cells to clear the virus.
Later this month, the volunteer will stop taking the antiretroviral drugs he’s been on to keep the virus at undetectable levels. Then, investigators will wait 12 weeks to see if the virus rebounds. If not, they’ll consider the experiment a success. ‘What we’re trying to do is return the cell to a near-normal state,’ says Daniel Dornbusch, CEO of Excision BioTherapeutics, the San Francisco-based biotech company that’s running the trial.”
HIV isn’t the only disease being treated with gene-editing, though—even if you aren’t counting Covid vaccines.
“Crispr is being used in several other studies to treat a handful of conditions that arise from genetic mutations. In those cases, scientists are using Crispr to edit peoples’ own cells. . .The virus can only reproduce if it’s fully intact, so Crispr disrupts that process by cutting out chunks of the genome. . .In 2019, researchers at Temple University and the University of Nebraska found that using Crispr to delete those regions eliminated HIV from the genomes of rats and mice. A year later, the Temple group also showed that the approach safely removed viral DNA from macaques with SIV, the monkey version of HIV.
That was an important step toward testing the treatment in people, says Kamel Khalili, a professor of microbiology at Temple University who led the work and is a cofounder of Excision Biotherapeutics. ‘You don’t want to eliminate the viral genome but at the same time cause any disruption in another part of the human genome and then create another set of problems for the patients,’ he says. ‘We had to make sure that we identified a region within HIV that did not overlap with the human genome.’
Dornbusch thinks this strategy will spare patients from serious side effects and ‘off-target’ edits—unintentional cuts elsewhere in the genome that could cause problems such as cancer.”
That would be very important. And the problem is that we can’t trust these people. How do we know the HIV scientists and doctors are more to be trusted than those loudly shouting that the Covid vaccine is safe and effective while the vaccine casualties pile up. I’m certainly in favor of successfully treating people suffering from HIV, but Big Pharma and Big Medicine lie to line their own pockets.
“In 2017, Chinese scientists combined Crispr with a bone marrow transplant in an attempt to cure a patient with HIV and leukemia. . .Then in 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui used Crispr to edit the CCR5 mutation into the genomes of twin baby girls to make them resistant to HIV. Fraught with ethical violations, the experiment was widely condemned by scientists. . .[one person] was declared cured of HIV earlier this year after she received a new type of transplant involving umbilical cord blood.”
I want to know where that “umbilical cord blood” came from. Perhaps from aborted babies? Goodness knows aborted baby parts are used constantly in medical research and treatment.
“The ultimate goal is to get viral loads down to an undetectable level—that is, less than 200 copies of HIV per milliliter of blood. At this level, HIV can’t be passed on through sex. . .‘People with HIV still live with a lot of stigma and internalized shame.’”
Again, I know that sometimes HIV-positive patients did not do anything to deserve that condition. But HIV is largely an STD contracted because of choices—particularly the choice to engage in homosexual activity. Notice that WIRED and the experts it cites do not even mention abstinence or better life decisions as a possible prevention of HIV, despite specifically mentioning that HIV is transmitted sexually. At the very least the article should have admitted that HIV is a problem because of bad decisions from people themselves. HIV is not like the common cold—it often comes from deliberate decisions. Pretending that “internalized shame” is the problem is unhelpful and foolish.
But then again, the medical community would probably prefer the necessity of “gene-editing” to stopping a risky sexual behavior, wouldn’t it?
idiots! We don't know what causes AIDS. People with no symptoms have tested positive for the virus, and people with symptoms have tested negative for the virus. Tony Pfauci killed 1/3 to 1/2 million young men by giving them them AZT (poison), many of whom had NO symptoms but had tested positive for HIV. We have complete fools--very greedy fools--running our "health care" system.