Rodders Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 If cancer is too many white blood cells, and HIV is too few white blood cells, could both diseases not cancel each other out? nearly there Newser) – A German doctor has inspired hope for a new approach to AIDS treatment with his handling of a leukemia case, the Wall Street Journal reports. Because the patient also had AIDS, Gero Hütter looked for a bone marrow donor with a specific mutation that seems to stymie the HIV virus. Nearly 2 years later, the American patient remains AIDS-free. About 1% of Europeans carry this mutation, which prevents the creation of a molecule that allows HIV easier access to human cells. The donated marrow seems to be offering Hütter’s patient continued protection, but such a treatment is not for everyone: such transplants have 30% mortality rates. Instead, gene therapy looks like a promising, and somewhat safer, line of research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 If the net effect of putting "Please consider the environment before printing this email" is in fact negative. (ie Are the number of extra pieces of paper printed because the email is extended by 2 lines greater than the number of pages saved by people deciding not to print the email on the back of the message) Along the same lines, recycling. You're apparently meant to wash everything before putting out for recycling; using water and energy. The recycling process itself i believe is quite energy intensive. Do we save enough on the recycling to make all this worthwhile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 How would I commit the perfect crime without being caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Well, I think the first step would be to avoid announcing your criminal intent online. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Do animals talk in accents in "their own language"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 How old could you be when you die, and still be considered young? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Does a Spider scream when you flush it down the loo ? does a fly think "he's never going to be able to read that magazine rolled up like that " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted June 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2011 If a man says something in a forest, and there is no woman around to hear him...is he STILL wrong? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 If there is a distinction to be made between the noise made by a falling tree in a forest with no one around to hear it and the noise of an equally clumsy tree in a forest with someone to hear it, in a trillion years when all life has died out and there is nothing left with any concept of the noise of a tree, did it ever make a noise, or was there ever even a tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2011 Did a fifth-former really put potassium permanganate in Chippy Spencer's tea? and if so: Why did he not see his tea was purple? and if he did indeed drink it: Why didn't he die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezza Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I genuinely wonder about how the lives of my children will turn out, given the current state of the world in which we live, and given that we moved to Australia when they were very young to give them (hopefully) a better way of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Where I'll be in ten years time, mainly. The most worrying thing is that I don't have a **** clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 If I could kill a man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 If all the money spent of weapons and wars for all countries in the last 40 years had instead been spent on Space research (eg NASA), how far would we have got and would we have found some solutions to the long term problems the world has. Energy for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 And all the money spent on Space research spent on feeding and educating everyone on earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 And all the money spent on Space research spent on feeding and educating everyone on earth Or 50% of footballers wages over the past 20 years on feeding and educating everyone on earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 If all the money spent of weapons and wars for all countries in the last 40 years had instead been spent on Space research (eg NASA) without the war then NASA wouldn't have all those German scientists so the yanks would probably still by trying to figure out how to attach a supersonic nozzle to a liquid-fueled rocket engine's combustion chamber :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 If all the money spent of weapons and wars for all countries in the last 40 years had instead been spent on Space research (eg NASA) without the war then NASA wouldn't have all those German scientists so the yanks would probably still by trying to figure out how to attach a supersonic nozzle to a liquid-fueled rocket engine's combustion chamber :-) 2011 - 40 = 1971....not 1945 Put your ration book away Tony, it's over and we WON , just let it go man ! We had already been to the moon by then but as you say we would not have made it if it wasn't for those pesky German scientists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 2011 - 40 = 1971....not 1945 Razz :oops: to be fair it's still 1984 in my house and Big Country are in their prime and plod are twating miners with truncheons ..happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LincsVilla Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 What do the cows think? I know that keeping, feeding and milking cows produces tasty milk, yoghurts and dairy products - but the cow doesn't know that - every night she must wonder why we bring her into a big warm shed then muck about with her undercarriage before making off with her creamy white treasure - they must think we're **** mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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