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Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant
DieNadel writes to share that naturally occurring proteins called "zinc fingers" are being used in a new approach to AIDS treatment. Using modified T-Cells with the zinc fingers, researchers at the Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown a reduction in viral load in mice. "'By inducing mutations in the CCR5 gene using zinc finger proteins, we've reduced the expression of CCR5 surface proteins on T cells, which is necessary for the AIDS virus to enter these immune system cells,' explains first author Elena Perez, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Penn. 'This approach stops the AIDS virus from entering the T cells because it now has an introduced error into the CCR5 gene.'"
Aren't we having a zinc shortage? Get it from these fingers!!
Oh wait...T-cells. I thought it said T-Virus.
As opposed to what, being a good "con" and doing what?
I would like some background to what I can only parse as a retarded attempt to politicize with a statement that must've taken a whole 5 braincells to parrot.
Haven't we learned not to modify T-Cells already?
The world is going to end in 2012 anyway so why worry.
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sorry. I had to.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
OMG you had better try to get in touch with these researchers, because this probably did not occur to them at all!
"Researchers Throw Finger at HIV"
That sounds like a great plan. Insert errors into our genetic code until the virus leaves us alone. That's got to work.
Because....
We run out of zinc, jackass!!!
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
As opposed to what, being a good "con" and doing what?
Conning people?
Ignore this signature. By order.
Couldn't you have put it as an analogy that does not involve "making out"? Something slashdotters can understand, like, a car analogy?
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
Just because the Mayans calendar ended then means what exactly? They didn't even invent, let alone UTILIZE the wheel...
Not only that but they were able to predict "the end of the world" and yet utterly failed to foresee the end of their own civilization?
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The world's gonna end on Diablo III's release date?
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Make them Goatse resistant? Slashdot could use some of that
No, we run out of zinc in 2011 and the end of the world comes in 2012.
We could just move the end of the world forward by one year to solve the problem.
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No, not zombies, corpses.
So... pre-zombies?
We scientific types prefer to call them zombie precursors.
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I guess when Isaac Asimov was infected with HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion he deserved to get sick and die!
Absolutely, according to the original poster he shouldn't have had a transfusion without a condom, so it was completely his fault. (details are left as an exercise to the reader).
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You not only need to be sure, you need to be HIV-positive...
Mod +1 relieved
Phew
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Besides, it's never lupus.
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