http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/02/03/8618 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:25:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/02/03/8618/comment-page-1#comment-32682 Suricou Raven Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:14:59 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8618#comment-32682 An interesting idea, but this is making patients who have a mix of infectable and non-CCR5 T-cells. I'm not a biologist, but I know that HIV mutates and evolves extremally fast, and that this mix is the perfect environment for evolving a strain that can infect non-CCR5 cells too. I'd like to see some expert reassurance that this isn't going to happen. An interesting idea, but this is making patients who have a mix of infectable and non-CCR5 T-cells. I’m not a biologist, but I know that HIV mutates and evolves extremally fast, and that this mix is the perfect environment for evolving a strain that can infect non-CCR5 cells too. I’d like to see some expert reassurance that this isn’t going to happen.

]]>