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Breakthrough Portends Cure For the Common Cold
breadboy21 writes with this excerpt from the Independent:
"Scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defenses can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible. The discovery opens the door to the development of a new class of antiviral drugs that work by enhancing this natural virus-killing machinery of the cell. Scientists believe the first clinical trials of new drugs based on the findings could begin within two to five years."
But studies at the Medical Research Council's laboratory have found that the antibodies produced by the immune system, which recognise and attack invading viruses, actually ride piggyback into the inside of a cell with the invading virus.
Yes but these 'Slim Pickens' antibodies are often regarded as clinically insane by the others that watch in confusion as the suicidal antibody hoots and hollers, waiving its antibody cowboy hat around as the virus blasts them both into the cell.
My work here is dung.
My cold will be over by then.
Includes sudden death. If you or a loved one has died after taking this drug. WE CAN GET YOU MONEY!
We reduce the number of ways we can defend against Martian war machines.
I am officially gone from
http://xkcd.com/678/
Don't hold your breath expecting a quick, simple and over the counter cure.
Holding your breath is a quick, simple cure, as long as you can do it long enough.
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No, no, no, no, no. This is just silly.
I have seen several Star Trek episodes where they emphatically pointed out that they had never found a cure for the common cold. So how could there be one in the mere 21st century? Idiots.
Transporters that can reverse the aging process? Sure. (Though somehow they repeatedly forget this and continue to die of old age.) A cure for most every disease except the common cold? Sure! But a cure for the common cold itself? Impossible!
None of them are going to cure you in a finger-snap.
"The average cold lasts seven days, but if you take this drug it will be over in a week"
...So now we'll be able to cure the common cold, but can't put a man on the Moon (anymore)?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Virus rollls self for initiative.
Shh! If I can convince enough stupid people this actually works I could make the world a better place.
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