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Crowdsourcing HIV Research
biolgeek writes "In recent years, HIV has been managed with a collection of therapies. However, the virus will likely evolve around these drugs, making it crucially important to get a better understanding of the virus itself. An important step in understanding the virus is to get a handle on its genetic blueprint. William Dampier of Drexler University is taking a novel approach to this research by crowdsourcing his problem. He is hosting a bioinformatics competition, which requires contestants to find markers in the HIV sequence that predict a change in the severity of the infection (as measured by viral load). So far the best entry comes from Fontanelles, an HIV research group, which has been able to predict a change in viral load with 66% accuracy."
Isn't this what caused so many people to come down with it in the first place?
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Infect Huge Numbers of people with HIV and after 10 years breed the survivors and infect them again, after 100 years the crowds are dwindled down and whomever remains is immune, HIV epidemic, SOLVED!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
This strikes me as the sort of disease where you'd want to stay away from phrases like "viral load".
But I already fight AIDS at home by engaging in an alternative to one of the most common transmission methods.
Why, I've probably prevented over 100 cases of HIV in just this year to date!
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