That is pretty much the same thing they do when they do a bone marrow transplant.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > "About a third of the people die [during such transplants], so it's just > too > much of a risk," Levy said. To perform a stem cell transplant, doctors > intentionally destroy a patient's immune system, leaving the patient > vulnerable to infection, and then reintroduce a donor's stem cells (which > are from either bone marrow or blood) in an effort to establish a new, > healthy immune system. > > Sounds pretty extreme :/ > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bill Wheatley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular > > > > > > -- > > William Wheatley > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
