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Gene Transfer Immunizes Against Monkey HIV Analog
Al writes "Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have immunized monkeys against the simian immunodeficiency virus, the animal model that is closest to HIV. They did so by shuttling a gene into the monkeys' muscles, making the muscle cells produce antibody-like molecules that work against SIV. With both SIV and HIV, the chameleon-like mutability of the virus's surface changes so quickly that most antibodies made by the immune system are soon rendered ineffective. Philip Johnson and colleagues designed DNA sequences for two antibodies known to be effective against SIV. They used antibody-like molecules, called immunoadhesins, in which the functional part of an antibody is fused with a more stable section of another antibody. The same approach could be used to deliver antibodies that are effective against HIV, but which the body doesn't normally produce."
It only works if your name is Magic Johnson.
Typical moronic comments from Slashdotters.
1) HIV is not the cause of AIDS. (Yes, I know, I know, you know more about AIDS than I do, because the TV told you all about it.)
Read the book "Science Sold Out" - very short, and proves that AIDS is not a sexually transmitted disease.
2) Vivisectionists like torturing monkeys, and 99% of Slashdotters seem to be complete sociopaths, who are incapable of feeling the suffering of others, so every vivisection story turns into a joke about this or that animal, because you can't even imagine for one second what it feels like to be them. How humane of you all.
3. Vivisectionists, being the sociopaths that they are, don't give two hoots about the people they are claiming to be doing 'vital research' for, and their 'research' is a total fraud, which is why we have the current HIV debacle (no cure, no hope of a cure, allegedly 'HIV positive' people living for more than 20 years with NO illness, number of 'infections' stuck at a constant one million in the U.S. for the past 20 years, which is impossible if it's a sexually transmitted virus, not to mention how many people should be dying every year in the U.S. from 'AIDS' but simply aren't...
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Come on, Slashdot, where are all of the racist jokes? I expect better from you people.
I guess I'll start: nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger. It's the nigger and faggot virus. Okay it's not really a joke, but eh, we needed a few niggers in this thread. (Haha actually no -- no we most certainly do not! [unless they're dead])
"And how bad would the AIDS epidemic be (in Africa or elsewhere) if people followed "oppressive" Christian teachings like keeping the sex in marriage (I'm no expert on Islam, but as far as I know, they too at least theoretically believe the same)?"
That won't do a hell of a lot for the people catching HIV from dirty needles or from breast feeding mothers.
Monogamy in marriage is all fine and dandy, but lets not pretend HIV wouldn't exist if people could just forget millions of years of evolution and keep it in their pants.
"Mock and flame away. I'll pay attention when somebody proposes an actual drawback to monogamy."
By reducing sexual partners, you limit the number of offspring you have and human kind evolves more slowly. But then again, your Christian teachings probably preclude you from believing evolution occurs.
PS Monogamy inside marriage is part of Islam, but in many Islamic societies men can take multiple wives. That is what I call having your cake and eating it too.
If the pattern goes 9am, 10am, 11am, why isn't noon 12am?