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HIV Transmission Captured On Video

Posted by kdawson on from the lives-of-a-virus dept.

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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  1. AIDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it still stands for Ass Injected Death Sentence

  2. HIV is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good for keeping niggers and gays down.

  3. Urban legend by pescina · · Score: -1, Troll

    Coming soon to a theater near you...

  4. how to cure AIDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    everyone knows it's a homo/nigger disease. if your a memeber of GNAA your really fucked.

    1. Re:how to cure AIDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Members of the GNAA must be pretty fucked up before they joined.

  5. Dissapointment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    My right hand was disappointed by this video.

  6. Nothing new here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I saw AIDS transmission in that movie "Shaving Ryan's Privates".

  7. Re:Fascinating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's what happens when you go putting things where they don't belong.

  8. Re:Fascinating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    buggering increases the risk.