HIV Transmission Captured On Video

Technology Review has promising news on the AIDS front: researchers have captured HIV T cell transmission on video. The upshot could be new avenues of treatment. "The resulting images and videos show that, once an infected cell adheres to a healthy cell, the HIV proteins... migrate within minutes to the contact site. At that point, large packets of virus are simultaneously released by the infected cell and internalized by the recipient cell. This efficient mode of transfer is a distinct pathway from the cell-free infection that has been the focus of most prior HIV studies, and reveals another mechanism by which the virus evades immune responses that can neutralize free virus particles within the body."

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There is a way to beat the HIV virus

[Anonymous Coward]

I have an idea how to stop HIV and it involves the same technology found in terminator seeds.

In a nutshell, the government sanctions the agricultural giant Monsanto to engineer a new strain of HIV virus with a limited lifespan beyond a certain generation with ability to recode the DNA as it progresses. This virus could be hostile to all the known HIV strains out in the wild and force them out. People voluntarily get infected with this new virus as means of guarding against incurable HIV infections. Since this new virus can be regulated upon demand, Monsanto can then minimize the damage for a low monthly fee by supplying you with various off switches to reduce the infection. They could set up various plans depending on your budget. Silver and Gold plans would have limited side effects to encourage you to upgrade to the Platinum plan and get better viral sterilization methods.

I think this could work.

Re:There is a way to beat the HIV virus

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to Monsanto-land, where nothing can possibl-y go wrong.

Re:There is a way to beat the HIV virus

[justinlee37]

I think you got trolled. 10/10

Re:There is a way to beat the HIV virus

[Hurricane78]

And if your partner infects you, you will get sued for copyright violation.

Just as with their (eg wheat) grains. 10 years prison. Minimum.

Re:Fascinating

[srussia]

I always found biology quite fascinating. All those little buggers that can kill a human just by sheer numbers.

You should hang around statisticians then. They're a hoot!

Re:Fascinating

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok I'll bite ... "HIV Transmission Captured On Video" ... I can't be the first to think, its probably been caught on videos before now!

Re:Fascinating

[Forge]

Patients on the chemotherepy ward were discussing how Cervical Cancer is more prevalent in women who start having sex early, have sex often and/or with multiple partners.

The conclusion they came to is that excess stimulation of a sexual nature actually causes the cancer to develop. The guy with testicular cancer nodded approval, the woman with Brest cancer started to cry, The woman with throat cancer managed to cough out "not true".

The guy with Prostate Cancer ran away screaming "I am not gay. I am not gay"

There. See, people can joke about Cancer patients.

Re:If only HIV killed instantly..

[Anonymous Coward]

Or unless necrophilia is a lot more common than we currently suppose...

consesus consmenshus

[city]

I'm still not sold. Can anyone from Kansas grab a science book and find me the section about the weaknesses of this "theory"?

Re:Fascinating

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it's funny when people fall down. Unless they're really old.