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Integrated HIV Successfully Cut Out of Human Genome
Chris writes "German scientists have succeeded in snipping HIV out of human cells after it has integrated itself into a patient's DNA. The procedure is a breakthrough in bio-technology and fuels hope of a cure for AIDS. The group is only cautiously optimistic, though, as treating a full-on infection would be substantially different than succeeding in a controlled lab environment. 'Researchers ... began with the bacterial enzyme Cre recombinase, which exchanges any two pieces of DNA flanked on either end by a certain pattern of nucleotides (DNA subunits) known as loxP. HIV does not naturally contain loxP sites, so the team created a hybrid of the two DNA molecules, which they used to select a series of mutated Cre enzymes that were increasingly able to recognize the combined DNA. The final enzyme, Tre, removed all traces of HIV from cultured human cervical cells after about three months, the researchers report online today in Science.'"
Alright, I must be crazy. I was just thinking about HIV in the shower, and a similar idea came to my mind. Now it wasn't identical-that would have been freaky-but similar enough to make my hair stand up when I read the first /. entry this morning
Did they do it with an iPhone?
They used the transporter and the pattern from when the person beamed down on the away mission...
Translation: RTFA.
Sure: Germans have created a variant of sed, that operates on DNA and used it to delete HIV.
The good news is you can avoid prosecution based on DNA evidence.
The bad news is you will have two heads, flippers instead of arms, and sneeze bile.
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Well then all we need to do is write a simple script to iterate over all of the cells in the body and run the sed command. The list may be too long though, so we might have to use xargs, but that's no big deal.
I always knew shell scripting would save lives one day.