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Scientists Find A 'Weak Spot' In HIV That May Pave The Way To A Vaccine (futurism.com)
iONiUM quotes a report from Futurism: Research conducted by a team from the National Institutes of Health reported a new vulnerable site on HIV for vaccines to target. It is based on an antibody from the blood of an HIV-infected patient that binds with the virus and also prevents it from infecting a cell. A recent press release reports that a team of scientists led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has discovered a new "weak spot" in HIV that vaccines can target. The area, called the fusion peptide, is a simple structure of eight amino acids that helps the virus fuse with a cell. According to the study, the team used a particularly powerful antibody, called VRC34.01, taken from the blood of an unnamed HIV-positive patient that caught the weak spot in the virus. It's not only capable of binding with the virus through the fusion peptide but also preventing it from infecting an entire cell.
so that we can continue to stuff your money in our pockets, because never-ending research is more profitable than selling a cure.
Sweeeeet! Now Slashdot nerds can have no sex but without a condom!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Can someone explain to me: If the person has an antibody that prevents HIV from binding to a cell, how are they HIV positive?
They found an HIV-patient exhibiting an effective (to what degree is unclear from TFS) immune response to the HIV virus.
Let's give credit to the patient or the patient's immune system.
... is the patient whose body produced this antibody going to get a cut, or is it just the researchers and their organizations who will gain?
That's good. I've been wearing the same condom since 2003.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Could have saved Nina from his madness.
The first symptom is a pounding sensation in the butt.
The story's been out for an hour, and nary a comment about how it makes no sense to cure when they can keep profiting from ongoing treatment. I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed. (oooh.... did I just really use the word 'nary' in a sentence???)
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Yeaaaaahh... about that... HIV isn't the only thing that casual unprotected sex spreads. See "herp, the."
Now we just need a cure for butt fucking faggotry and we'll be aaaall fuckin set :)
Fuckin faggots.
It does such a wonderful job cleansing the unwashed masses and deviant homos from the world.
After initial infection, the virus will enter a long-dormant period, during which it will continue to mutate and wear down the immune system. In most people, this period will end after a decade or so, when the immune system "tires" and allows viral load to increase. The destruction of CD4 helper cells (most by induced apoptosis, a small percentage by infection) opens the body to oprotunistic infection, which (barring treatment) is usually the end of the story.
A small group of the infected, called "Long Term Non-Progressors," are able to create highly-effective antibodies in their B-cells. When they do this, the viral load never increases, and they remain in the latency period indefinitely.
The antibodies produced by such people have been studied with X-ray crystalography. Their B-cells can actually be used in the "monoclonal antibody" process to create antibody solutions for other people that can be injected and used in treatment.
In any case, these highly-effective antibodies are only produced after years of interaction of the virus with the immune system. They are not presented upon initial infection, and LTNP individuals don't differ from the normal immune reaction during the first six months.
...all so Gay men can fuck each other up the ass with impunity.
The target area is only two microns wide. It's a small chemical heat exchange valve, right below the main nutrient valve. The passageway leads directly to the nucleotide system.
I think the most scary STD is hepatitis C. Cirrhosis is a very long, drawn out death.
And it has worked... I still haven't caught AIDS! It is a bit difficult to pee, however...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Jaundice, it turns you orange. Hey, is there anybody out there that's already orange?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Leave it the fuck alone! Otherwise, I'l mutate it myself to be more resilient.
Brec1 can actually cure people of HIV, by going into infected cells and removing the integrated provirus. I'm a software engineer, so I have no idea how this works, but it sounds more promising than this naturally-occurring antibody. Apparently BREC is evolved with a genetic algorithm; that part I understand.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Wait, you're supposed to wear it on your...? Oh, never mind.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Cause thats where I've been sticking them all these years. It took me a while to get turning my car good...once I switched to the ribbed kind I had much better finger traction on the wheel.
sent HIV as punishment for homosexuality. Why do these doctors hate Jesus?
A "cure" or vaccine for HIV/AIDS has been possibly only 10 years away for the past 30 years.
We're always "closer than ever before" to nuclear fusion, and have been within 20 years of it for 50 years
We've been only 10 to 20 years away from a manned Mars mission for 40+ years
Flying cars? Jetpacks? the list is endless of the stuff lots of people wish for and that advocates are always promising "soon" if somebody (usually taxpayers) would just pony-up another pile of cash on top of the billions previously "invested". These things are unicorns. They either cannot exist, or they do not yet exist for very good reasons like humans not understanding some fundamental thing or lacking the ability to fabricate some widget etc.
With HIV, there's a basic fact people are expected to ignore:
Human beings have never truly defeated a virus. We do not know how, and may not know enough for another century or two, or twenty...
As individuals we only survive a virus by sheer luck of circumstance, general health, and so forth (not likely with things like HIV). The general population manages to survive viral exposure via innoculation with a vaccine (i.e. not an actual "cure" so much as an assist to the immune system to help us survive the exposure). The dream of an HIV vaccine is not a cure for HIV at all, but rather a play to expose the entire population to something that would then allow most people to survive exposure to HIV. Nobody is even pretending to want to actually eliminate HIV/AIDS, which would happen for free and in only 1 generation if we could just get people to stop IV drugs and stop sleeping around like animals. In other words: if in the 1980s society had treated HIV/AIDS as a communcable disease rather than a political cause and ignored all the AIDS and IV-drug addicts activists and done quarantines and contract tracing as had been done in so many earlier outbreaks of infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS would now be a distant dark memory and millions of people would not now be dead or dying.
“Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.” Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D. PhD
The CDC reported a measles outbreak in a 100% documented vaccinated population. Studies show that children who received vaccinations were 14 times more likely to become learning disabled and develop asthma. There is virtually no asthma in unvaccinated children. Unvaccinated people are healthier, have higher disease resistance, and recover more rapidly from illness. There have never been any saftey studies done on vaccines that would meet the appropriate criteria. Donald Meserlian P.E. VOSI Chairman
“In 1978 a childhood immunisation initiative was begun. Individual states passed legislation requiring proof of immunisation for school entry at 5 and 6 years of age. They mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidents of whooping cough and indeed children developed whooping cough from the vaccines.” Dr. Vera Schiebner
“And it was clearly demonstrated that the only people who got smallpox twice were the vaccinated, and that there are far more cases of smallpox among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated, and these statistics are available.” Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D. PhD
Something like 40% of gay men are HIV positive.
I wonder what happens if we only half-way beat this and some pandemic comes along to make use of the compromised immune systems? Combine it with some of the anti-vaxxers types and...
I would think that if cells can not become infected that over time the virus might cease to exist within the body.
But me and my hand are faithful to each other!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Some kids that overdid it with the tanning cream usually end up looking bright orange. Like this goofball.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Another vaccine. Just what everybody needs.
You mean the rebels found a fatal flaw in HIV? A thermal exhaust port with a shaft that leads directly to the HIV reactor core? A simple proton torpedo could take out the whole virus! It's a one-in-a-million shot, kid!
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APK
P.S.=> You never answered my question after your "ministry of UNTRUTH" there too, lol... apk
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* What's it LIKE being an "outism" brain-damaged do-nothing menial nobody on your end?
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APK
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