'Bad' Protein Linked to Numerous Health Problems

nbahi15 writes "A report in the July 13th edition of the online Journal of Clinical Investigation has linked the aP2 protein to asthma and several other diseases. It also suggests a connection between the metabolic and immune systems and these diseases." From a related Forbes article: "To study the effects of aP2, the researchers created genetically engineered mice that could not produce the protein. 'They're metabolic supermice,' Hotamisligil said. 'We cannot make them obese, diabetic or atherosclerotic. They don't develop fatty liver disease, and they don't develop asthma.' In mice with an animal model of asthma, the researchers found that aP2 regulated the infiltration of inflammatory molecules into the lungs."

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Time for the vaccine.

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Let's see, how long before we can buy the vaccine? Better yet how long before doctors start selling it on the black market?

If this really is just a single protien, well then, it's going to be sold. How do we find it? How much will it cost? If it's going to be a prescribed drug, how can we buy stock? If it's a vaccine, how can we get one?

I don't know, I suppose right now none of this matters because the earth wont last long enough to even make this drug and test it. Chances are, we will die of the flu before we die of heart disease. Chances are will we die of food pollution or water pollution or air pollution.

So, yes if this is the truth, well this is good, but theres a lot of good news that we will only see in 10 years or more, and considering the current state we could be back in the stone age or tribal, who knows. What I do know is that this will be very valueable knowledge.