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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. Slashdotters have nothing to fear! by El+Gringo+Loco · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "...a virus that can be spread by having sex, just like HIV..."

    Sex?

    Slashdotters don't have to worry about either one.

  2. Re:Ebola-Cold. by metlin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There is more, one of the problems is possible mutation.

    The way the article ended was scary --

    It's also possible that HIV and the therapeutic virus could mutate around each other and recombine to make an altogether new virus.

    "I can't say now it won't make it worse," Arkin said.

    Well, now that would be bad, wouldn't it? What if this virus mutates with other some other virus, too, that they have not studied about? And what if it mutates on itself into something far more harmful?

    Those are the scary possibilities.

    Like you said, HIV has all the makings of a badass virus -- now, this virus will too. Just because it kills HIV does not mean that it's all that good in itself -- it may cause some harm on its own that could be far worse than HIV.