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  • This is how it works (from the article) ...

    The search began to find the best bone marrow match. The ideal donor would also have a CCR5 gene mutation resistant to HIV. 

    CCR5 is a protein on the surface of an immune cell that acts as the door that HIV enters to infect the body, but about one per cent of the population, primarily of northern European descent, are deficient of this gene.

    That means there is no door for the virus to enter, “and so the virus can't get into the cells,” said Dr. Mario Ostrowski, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital who co-led the case with Walmsley. The new donor cells could also attack and eliminate the reservoir of virus-infected cells. 

  • I have a friend who adopted an FASD child in Ontario. The family tried using the regular school system but the hoops they had to jump through, and the lack of funding for 1-on-1 care, became too much to deal with.

    They finally decided to place the child in a religious private school where he had the freedom (and monitoring) that he needed, ie: when he became frustrated he was able to go outside and race around the church.

    Maybe Drug Fraud could better fund 1-on-1 care in schools with that $29M he was going to spend on a private fucking jet.

  • Zed.

    Dunno who decided zee was a thing, but they were wrong.

  • He paid his dues according to our laws.

  • Yeah. I'm old now but have moved about a hundred times in my life. I hate it.

    The one good thing about moving so often is I don't have a ton of stuff to pack.

  • Honestly I don't think a lot of them would go back right away. It's like that old saying, "Once bit, twice shy."

    If anything I think they'd be holding back moving so they could verify any positive changes in how the USA would operate would be permanent, and not just lip-service.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to Canada

    www.thecanadianpressnews.ca /national/experts-report-a-surge-in-interest-among-american-academics-looking-to-move-to-canada/article_f0c30612-5683-502b-9006-35805735cd23.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science | The Walrus

    thewalrus.ca /how-residential-school-students-became-victims-of-nazi-race-science/
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Middle East crisis live: Palestinians vote in first elections since outbreak of war; Israel strikes Lebanon despite ceasefire

    www.theguardian.com /world/live/2026/apr/25/middle-east-crisis-live-witkoff-and-kushner-head-to-pakistan-for-iran-negotiations
  • News @lemmy.world

    Washington, D.C., swaps out Australian flags for British ones before King's arrival after mix-up

    www.cbc.ca /news/world/washington-dc-australia-flag-error-king-charles-9.7177210
  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Standing up to bullies: Lithuania’s playbook for surviving economic warfare, and what Canada can learn

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/lithuania-canada-economic-warfare-trade-9.7176557
  • Hey Kev. Who was really driving the boat?

  • News @lemmy.world

    US won’t give unredacted Epstein documents to UK police without formal request

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/apr/24/us-wont-give-unredacted-epstein-documents-to-uk-police-without-lengthy-formal-request
  • Without hope the people perish.

  • World News @lemmy.world

    ‘Silent suffering’: Why children in Gaza are losing their ability to speak

    www.aljazeera.com /features/2026/4/24/silent-suffering-why-children-in-gaza-are-losing-their-ability-to-speak
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Russian oil exports slump as Ukraine hammers ports and refineries

    www.aljazeera.com /features/2026/4/24/russian-oil-exports-slump-as-ukraine-hammers-ports-and-refineries
  • News @lemmy.world

    Trump administration to prioritise seeking death penalty, use firing squads

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/4/24/trump-administration-to-prioritize-seeking-death-penalty-use-firing-squads
  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    In Remote Communities, an Indigenous Cardiologist’s Program Is Succeeding | The Tyee

    thetyee.ca /News/2026/04/24/In-Remote-Places-Indigenous-Heart-Health-Care-Success/
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Sailors in the Strait of Hormuz Face Hunger and Danger: Advocate | The Tyee

    thetyee.ca /News/2026/04/24/Sailors-Face-Hunger-Danger-Hormuz-Strait/
  • The mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt has been an aim of Israeli governments since December 1948, when the army first tried and failed to cleanse this last remaining enclave along Palestine’s Mediterranean coast. It tried again during the 1950s and intensified its effort after the 1967 War, when Israel occupied both the Gaza Strip and the Sinai desert. Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023 gave Israel another opportunity. Expulsion plans were trumpeted by Israeli politicians and media spokespeople. Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that he was actively seeking to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. Israeli and some US officials started lobbying Egypt to accept large numbers of refugees. For eight months the Israeli army refrained from occupying the border area near Rafah, leaving the exit to Egypt open.

    This exemplifies the circular logic of Zionist settler-colonialism: settlements are built to mark and protect the state’s border, but that makes them vulnerable to attack and so a buffer zone is established to protect them. Afterwards, this buffer zone is itself settled to mark and protect the newly expanded borders, at which point another buffer zone becomes necessary. In this manner vulnerability is produced and then mobilised in a feedback loop that the genocide scholar A. Dirk Moses has called ‘permanent security’.

  • World News @lemmy.world

    How long can Iran survive the US’s Hormuz blockade?

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/4/24/how-long-can-iran-survive-the-uss-hormuz-blockade
  • I have exactly zero hope that anything will come of this.

  • News @lemmy.world

    US government watchdog to investigate Epstein files release

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cvg0rkvjlvvo
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Benjamin Netanyahu treated for early-stage prostate cancer

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgw72lrvn3o
  • Ofc he is. 😡

  • “The United States Army is a beacon of transformation,” Driscoll said. “Imagine what we could do if we weren’t bound by the red tape!”

    O.o

    Riiiight.

  • Oh ffs already. America is one step away from imploding.

  • There are other reasons as well, ie: people who live with ADHD which means they may suffer from lack of impulse control, etc.

  • I thought the same at first, then changed my mind when I realized that the child may just want the surgery but their other US mom might be refusing it.

    The article is not clear on what the child's choice is.

  • No worries. :)

  • Damn. That sucks.

  • Ah, I get it. Thanks for responding. :)

  • Then there will always be other sources that aren't paywalled and aren't an aggregate.