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Anti-HIV Virus Developed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the got-the-name-all-over-it dept.

liam193 writes "Wired News is reporting that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory may have developed a virus that fights the HIV virus. According to the article, 'It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS. And that scares them.'"

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  1. Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... by mcspock · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No doubt they could invent an anti-hepatitis/herpes/etc virus too.

    But here's what i've always been curious about - what they invented a STD that made your penis longer, or one that made your breasts larger (depending on gender). This really could be the wave of the future - certain people becoming sexually appealing due to designer viruses they carry.

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  2. RTFA by Pahalial · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Okay, so it's ambiguous, but quickly browsing lower paragraphs shows they're scared by how easy it was to develop a virus, with a specific purpose/target to boot. As opposed to being scared because of the inefficiency of multinational research corps or whatever [that's more or less what I assumed at first as well].

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  3. Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... by Pyro226 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    We could end up with an epidemic of hepatitis and other STDs.

    That may be true, but I support any technology that makes it easier for slashdoters to get laid.

    In all seriousness though, this is very very cool. Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.

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