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Researchers Zero In On Protein That Destroys HIV

Posted by Soulskill on from the discovering-the-crucial-bazooka-protein dept.

Julie188 writes with this excerpt from a Loyola University news release: "Using a $225,000 microscope, researchers have identified the key components of a protein called TRIM5a that destroys HIV in rhesus monkeys. The finding could lead to new TRIM5a-based treatments that would knock out HIV in humans, said senior researcher Edward M. Campbell, PhD, of Loyola University Health System."

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  1. Oblig Rodney Dangerfield by PocariSweat1991 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!"

    1. Re:Oblig Rodney Dangerfield by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...

      How old ARE you?

      Does your Commadore PET still work?

    2. Re:Oblig Rodney Dangerfield by Ironhandx · · Score: 5, Funny

      What do you think he's using to post you insensitive clod!

      On the other hand I've heard similar stories from my Grandfather. Made especially hilarious by the fact that he was already married to my grandmother in the 70's and he says this stuff in front of her.

    3. Re:Oblig Rodney Dangerfield by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was a beta tester for dirt. We never did get all the bugs out...

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  2. Re:yea. by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I just saved a bunch of money on child support by switching to condoms!"

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  3. Ironically ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ironically, the protein that destroys AIDS isn't folded, it's straight.

    rimshot

  4. Re:yea. by Zeek40 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've worn a condom every time I've had a blood transfusion, and I've never gotten HIV.

  5. Re:yea. by ThatFunkyMunki · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duh, what did you expect? A trojan horse is when the big present comes in, and all the little guys come out inside the base! Seems like a no-brainer that I wouldn't trust something like that with wrapping my schlong

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  6. Hot Damn! by Petersko · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're one step closer to the day I can go find the freakiest, dirtiest, most disease-laden slut and hire her to do nasty, nasty things... and simply go for a single shot afterwards.

    I'm turning 40, though, so they'd better get on with it. If my emails are to be believed, I have only another thirty or forty years until pills no longer facilitate my erections.

  7. Re:yea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well done, your an idiot and I, for one, welcome you not reproducing.

    Ahh, the irony.

  8. Re:So the FDA can sit on it by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 4, Funny

    You read a LOT of Ayn Rand when you were a young, lonely and impressionable teenager, didn't you?

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  9. Re:yea. by tsm_sf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wanting a bunch of virgins is something only a virgin would want.

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  10. Re:$225,000 by RDW · · Score: 4, Funny

    'The 400x part is usually meaningless. It's just 40x objective and a 10x eye piece.'

    Yeah, but our eyepiece goes to 11.