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Nanoglue Could Be Used To Make Spiderman Web-Shooters
Stony Stevenson writes "A team of US researchers is using the super-adhesive properties of nanoglue to create a super-sticky web-shooting device much like the comic-book hero Spiderman's. The nanoglue is also being trialed in the production of computer chip circuitry and is expected to miniaturize the process, meaning faster and more powerful chips. From the article: '"If we can find a way to create threads and/or intertwined bundles using the molecules in a scalable fashion, while retaining the adhesive properties, then creating web-shooters similar to Spiderman's is a real possibility," Ramanath said. "There are ways in which molecular threads/bundles can be created in large quantities. The challenge will be, however, to simultaneously engineer adhesion on certain surfaces (and not others, since we want the suit only to form on the desired surface) and also with each other during the thread formation."'"
God-Damn! For the last GD time, it's Spider-Man!
So, basically you're saying that everyone in the pharmaceutical industry is a sociopath involved in a giant conspiracy to keep AIDS cures off the market. Not one whistleblower has come forward to leak the news of this alleged "cure" because?
Not one company will break ranks and put a "cure" on the market, even though they're engaged in cutthroat competition with each other, because?
Hint: this kind of conspiracy mongering says more about your own character and mental status than it does about your target.
Hint #2: There aren't many "cures" for any viral disease, not even the common cold. There are vaccines for some (not all) viruses (including experimental vaccines for HIV), but no real cure. Curing viral diseases is HARD, and HIV has features that make it even harder than the norm.
Hint #3: If pharmaceuticals is "the business to be in", why don't you and your conspiracy-mongering buddies start a pharma company? Nothing to it, really. Just work your ass off in grad school for 5 to 7 years, then spend 4 or 5 years working on a new drug (which, way more often than not, doesn't wind up panning out.... despite advances in computational chemistry and drug screening, drug development is still very much a gamble). THEN, if you come up with an effective compound, spend a billion dollars (not an exaggeration) getting it through FDA approval. And FINALLY, sell the product for the cost of the raw materials. No return on your time. No return on all the testing (before and during the FDA approval process). No return on the factory equipment, transportation costs, or marketing.
Oh, right: because complaining and making up dullwitted conspiracy theories is way easier than actually getting off your ass and doing something.