Team from Charité succeeds again in apparently fully eliminating HIV from a patient’s body

Wow good news, you don't hear too much about HIV these days.

Nithavela said:

Press reports: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Press release of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

www.charite.de

Click to expand...

Amen to this. So, does this mean that folks with HIV in the future (say, 20 years from now) could be cured routinely?

AlexB23 said:

Amen to this. So, does this mean that folks with HIV in the future (say, 20 years from now) could be cured routinely?

Click to expand...

I wonder how much AI was involved if at all with this breakthrough and diabetes recently. Things are happening that are promising for the people.

Laodicean60 said:

I wonder how much AI was involved if at all with this breakthrough and diabetes recently. Things are happening that are promising for the people.

Click to expand...

I am not sure, but AI could play a role. Maybe, technology is finally picking up again.

Prayers that no one uses this tech for evil.

Laodicean60 said:

I wonder how much AI was involved if at all with this breakthrough and diabetes recently. Things are happening that are promising for the people.

Click to expand...

For this study, no mention is made in the article. It is also a case study, so I dare say the answer to your question is: none.

I've seen some interesting use of image recognition and a few other related machine learning cases, but mostly it is useless.

AlexB23 said:

Amen to this. So, does this mean that folks with HIV in the future (say, 20 years from now) could be cured routinely?

Click to expand...

I suggest this depends upon at least four things:

• The extent to which environmental factors played a role in the success of the apparent cure.
• The extent to which genetic factors played a role in the success of the apparent cure.
• The absence of serious side effects.
• Economics.

Ophiolite said:

I suggest this depends upon at least four things:

• The extent to which environmental factors played a role in the success of the apparent cure.
• The extent to which genetic factors played a role in the success of the apparent cure.
• The absence of serious side effects.
• Economics.

Click to expand...

Agreed. We will have to wait and see. Remind me in 20 years.

Glad I do not have any diseases such as HIV, cos I am celibate.

AlexB23 said:

I am not sure, but AI could play a role. Maybe, technology is finally picking up again.

Click to expand...

This old Trekki is still waiting for the tricorder. As a teenager, I thought we'd be in space by now. If we can develop a modular nuclear power pack I can see us being like the Jetsons.

Laodicean60 said:

This old Trekki is still waiting for the tricorder. As a teenager, I thought we'd be in space by now. If we can develop a modular nuclear power pack I can see us being like the Jetsons.

Click to expand...

I am waiting for the tricorder also. As a teenager, I thought we would have astronauts on Mars by now, and have atomic rockets making the Earth-Mars journey in a matter weeks by the 2030s or 2040s. A decade later, and we have not even built the first Mars rocket.

Looks like I have to work on a sci-fi plot where an alien planet species (the Xa'na) has the tech to get to their own equivalent of Mars by now. But first, I have to get through a short sci-fi plot where the Xa'na have WW2 level tech in 1917-1924, along with cloud seeding tech to wage wars amongst themselves. If someone knows how to make a map of an alien planet, I am all ears, cos in order for me to finish the sci-fi plot, I need a way to make a map of a fictional planet, label it with continents, and a few countries and cities where the story takes place.

By the 1930s, after the war ended, the Xa'na launch their first satellite. By 1948, the Xa'na have landed on their moon. In 2003, the Xa'na landed on their nearest planetary neighbor, Hesalia (a little larger and warmer than Mars, about the same climate as on the Himalayan plateau), and have slightly more advanced mid-2020s level technology relative to humans. Finally, by 2060, the Xa'na land on an alien planet, 12.3 trillion miles (19.8 trillion km) from their home world, a 5-year round trip. Two years later, faster-than-light travel is invented, though, it was subsequently banned until 2188. Don't ask me why. I first have to get through the WW2-style plot, then a few other plots. It might take a few years for this stuff to get done.

Near Infrared tech could bring us one step closer to tricorders, though the tech is currently being used for farming:

AlexB23 said:

I am waiting for the tricorder also. As a teenager, I thought we would have astronauts on Mars by now, and have atomic rockets making the Earth-Mars journey in a matter weeks by the 2030s or 2040s. A decade later, and we have not even built the first Mars rocket.

Click to expand...

Why would you have thought that?

By your own statements you were a teenager in the 2010s, By then we had 50+ years of manned spaceflight and the issues were well known. It took a huge effort to go to the moon and return in a decade with a large cost. A cost far greater than has been spent on space exploration any time in the last 50 years. If you had been a teen 50 years earlier it would have been a reasonable thing to think (so long as you didn't read the newspaper headlines about the budget). Just 60 years ago there were somewhat reasonable projections of visits to Mars or moon colonies by ~1980. Today such things are fantasies.

Mars has two huge problems relative to the Moon: mass and distance. The larger mass of Mars means it takes more effort to not smash to pieces on contact and to get back out. The distance means that the window for ideal transfer orbits is short about two years apart rather than the monthly optimal Moon window. No one has even return anything from Mars yet.

Hans Blaster said:

Why would you have thought that?

By your own statements you were a teenager in the 2010s, By then we had 50+ years of manned spaceflight and the issues were well known. It took a huge effort to go to the moon and return in a decade with a large cost. A cost far greater than has been spent on space exploration any time in the last 50 years. If you had been a teen 50 years earlier it would have been a reasonable thing to think (so long as you didn't read the newspaper headlines about the budget). Just 60 years ago there were somewhat reasonable projections of visits to Mars or moon colonies by ~1980. Today such things are fantasies.

Mars has two huge problems relative to the Moon: mass and distance. The larger mass of Mars means it takes more effort to not smash to pieces on contact and to get back out. The distance means that the window for ideal transfer orbits is short about two years apart rather than the monthly optimal Moon window. No one has even return anything from Mars yet.

Click to expand...

I am not sure, but I had a Popular Science periodical in the 2010s, and the magazines kept on sensationalizing the future. But yes, it would take a lot of experts, money and fuel to get to Mars. Yes, the US spent more money as a percentage of GDP in the 1960s-1970s on space travel compared to nowadays. In summary, I was a dumb teenager, swayed by magazines.

Popular Science was probably made by a bunch of young white dudes on the coast with grandiose visions of a Jetsons utopia with solar powered flying cars by 2020.

AlexB23 said:

I am not sure, but I had a Popular Science periodical in the 2010s, and the magazines kept on sensationalizing the future. But yes, it would take a lot of experts, money and fuel to get to Mars. Yes, the US spent more money as a percentage of GDP in the 1960s-1970s on space travel compared to nowadays. In summary, I was a dumb teenager, swayed by magazines.

Popular Science was probably made by a bunch of young white dudes on the coast with grandiose visions of a Jetsons utopia with solar powered flying cars by 2020.

Click to expand...

This would have been not unreasonable speculation in 1965, but in 2011 it was just plain irresponsible of Pop Sci to hype in that fashion. (I haven't read Pop. Sci. since the late 80s. I switched to more substantial publications like Sci. Am. and Sci. News, neither of which I still subscribe to or read.)

AlexB23 said:

Click to expand...

FYI, if you want to black out your address, you also need to black out the bar code. It contains your zip+4 and if I looked it up could find out what block you live on.

Hans Blaster said:

This would have been not unreasonable speculation in 1965, but in 2011 it was just plain irresponsible of Pop Sci to hype in that fashion. (I haven't read Pop. Sci. since the late 80s. I switched to more substantial publications like Sci. Am. and Sci. News, neither of which I still subscribe to or read.)

FYI, if you want to black out your address, you also need to black out the bar code. It contains your zip+4 and if I looked it up could find out what block you live on.

Click to expand...

Thank you for the tip. That was not my magazine, but some photo I found online on Google images. Should I black out the barcode, to protect the photographer's privacy?

But yeah, it was totally messed up for pop-sci to spread false stuff in the early 2010s. It is good that you switched to more reputable publications. Nowadays, I tend to find actual science news, instead of speculation, which can be difficult to do in 2024.