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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.'"
Oh wait...T-cells. I thought it said T-Virus.
The world is going to end in 2012 anyway so why worry.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
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"
As opposed to what, being a good "con" and doing what?
Conning people?
Ignore this signature. By order.
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?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
No, not zombies, corpses.
So... pre-zombies?
We scientific types prefer to call them zombie precursors.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.