Gallagher, James. "Gene Therapy: 'Tame HIV' Used to Cure Disease." BBC News. BBC, 21 Apr. 2015. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
This article is extremely interesting and opens many new doors to the medical world. This article written by James Gallagher talks about 7 boys in Europe who have a rare genetic disease. The disease is called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. It affects about 1 in every million children born, yet it is pretty much exclusive with a few rare cases. These children had physical conditions like being bound to a wheelchair as well as extremely weak immune systems. For example, if they got small scratches or cuts the results, if not treated properly, can be deadly. The experiment done on these children was a bone marrow translate. But instead of your typical transplant the bone marrow was treated with a tamed strain of HIV. Weeks the surgery the boys were able to fully function as well as have stronger immune systems.
This experiment could help save a small population of young boys across the world. Besides the fact that they possibly cured a disease they tamed HIV. I had never heard that fact before. This, knock on wood, does not affect my life. My brother and I both are in good health and haven't ever been hospitalized.
This article was very informative as well as to the point. The article was about 20 short paragraphs that included very important and helpful information to the topic. I wouldn’t cut any lines or add any to this article. I also learned a lot of new information.
Gene Therapy: Tame HIV
ReplyDeleteGallagher, James. "Gene Therapy: 'Tame HIV' Used to Cure Disease." BBC News. BBC, 21 Apr. 2015. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32333161
This was a very interesting article on a topic that I have never heard or read about. Taming HIV and using it as a form of medicine is a shocking and new approach by scientists that I never thought would be effective. There are many things that Griffin does well in his current event. For example, at the beginning of his current event, he has a nice and brief introduction to what the article is about. Also, Griffin has a clear description of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and the effects it has on those who have the disease. Finally, Griffin did a good job figuring out how this new method of taming HIV can benefit people with rare diseases such as Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Although there were many things that Griffin did well, there is always room for improvement. One thing that Griffin could have added into his current event was a quote from a doctor who talked about the effects of the disease or how the treatment worked. This would provide the reader with a more in depth explanation of the treatment, which Griffin did not explain enough in his current event. Also, the current event would have been better if Griffin included more information about the procedure of taming HIV. For instance, he could have included what happened on the first few trials and the side effects the patients had as a result of the first attempts to tame HIV and use it as a form of medicine. This new method was very shocking and I never would have thought of HIV being turned into a form of treatment for those with rare diseases such as Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. What shocked me most were the side effects that occurred during the first few attempts to tame HIV and use it as treatment. The author stated that several trials were abandoned as patients developed leukemia during the treatment. This really surprised me because I never would have thought that after the first few attempts gave some of the patients leukemia, that the method would turn out to be as successful as it did. Overall, this was a very interesting topic that I have never heard or read about before and I am glad that I have the understanding I do now on the topic.
Gallagher, James. "Gene Therapy: 'Tame HIV' Used to Cure Disease." BBC News. BBC, 21 Apr. 2015. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
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This review by Griffin Garbarini was very interesting and shocking how you can can help heal by injecting yourself with HIV. Griffin did a good job presenting background information to get a more stable view on the situation. He also did a good job telling his personal side as he talks about his brother and himself. Griffin also used words and phrases that we understand. It might be hard to understand this topic if there is vocabulary that we did not know before this review. One thing that Griffin could work on is putting in more details. His review is a little short. He could add more facts. Another thing he could work on is adding some quotes from the reading. This would be good for us. I was very shocked about this topic. I would never of thought that you could heal by HIV. Overall, this was a good review by Griffin and I would want to do more research on it.