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Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS
Lisandro writes "German scientists at the University of Ulm have identified a natural ingredient of human blood that prevents the HIV-1 virus from from infecting immune cells and multiplying. The molecule, which they call virus-inhibitory peptide (VIRIP), promises new types of effective treatment for HIV in the future. 'Tweaks to its amino acid components boosted its anti-HIV potency by two orders of magnitude. Tests also showed that some derivatives of the molecule are highly stable in human blood plasma, and non-toxic even at very high concentrations. A synthetic version of VIRIP also proved effective at blocking HIV, excluding the possibility that some other factor was responsible. VIRIP targets a sugar molecule which HIV uses to infect a host cell. '"
"VIRIP targets a sugar molecule which HIV uses to infect a host cell."
/sarcasm
Well clearly then, the real solution is to destroy all the sugars in your body!
Good for them though, lets get this solved.
Sincerely,
God
Cuz I got it by drinking human blood.
Now is that the definition of irony or what?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"Patch found for AIDS vulnerability in human bodies."
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
I'd put money that if the human race survives a few thousand more years, that antibiotic allergies will be selected out of the gene pool.
Is the correllary true? That if the human race diminishes we will not have acess to this AIDS technology? The pool will be "closed", so to speak?
Actually the saying goes "The proof of the pudding is in the eating". The saying is one of the oldest in our language. Only recently has it been shortened and corrupted to "The proof is in the pudding". The meaning of the original is quite clear while "The proof is in the pudding" makes no sense at all.
OberGrammarFuehrer von Umlaut at your service!
/clicks heels
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
It's out to reproduce, that's its job.
How'd it get THAT job? I'm gonna kill my guidance counselor...
I thought "full service for 100 dinars" is the oldest?
Our calculations show that you are no longer necessary.
Sincerely
Steven Hawking
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
--- Do you believe in the day?
non-toxic even at very high concentrations
Does this stuff affect other viruses? (Is it something that evolved for this reason?) If so, why doesn't the body make more of it already? Would that be too biologically expensive, or would that have problematic effects we haven't recognized yet?
Well, it is a miracle drug that cures everything, from deadly viruses, bacterial infections, even cancers. The problem is that VIRIP, or as its know under its commercial name, Trutonin, obliterates the person's immune system... Creating a lifelong dependance on the drug.
3 degrees of separation from Vladimir Putin
I hope so, my doctor is very beautiful.
But alas, she still says "roll up your sleeve"...
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
is abstinence. Really, don't screw around until all HIV patients are dead. Hah, it is the ultimate cure, the only problem is implementing outside a public like Slashdot.
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