New Medical Technique Stops HIV!

[Superman4ever]

New gene technique 'stops HIV in its tracks'

HIV can be stopped dead in its tracks using a revolutionary technique for "silencing" genes, a study has shown. The discovery raises the possibility of a treatment for HIV that does not involve potentially toxic anti-viral drugs.

Scientists have found that RNA interference – where genes are artificially silenced using a natural molecular switch in the cell – can inhibit the replication of HIV in human blood cells.

Professor Premlata Shankar of Texas Tech University, who carried out the work when she was at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said: "RNA interference has great potential as an antiviral treatment... We think it has real promise, but there is a lot more to be done."

The results are the first to demonstrate the success of RNA interference in animals. Priti Kumar, of Harvard Medical School, said: "No one has demonstrated before that HIV infection can be stopped in vivo, not just in cell lines, but in animals. It implies it might work in humans." Further animal studies, however, are needed before the approach can be used on humans in clinical trials. The discovery of RNA interference won a Nobel prize in 2006.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-gene-technique-stops-hiv-in-its-tracks-888273.html


Here's more about gene interference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_silencing
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/gene/siRNA.htm

 

[SWAT]

... Africa here I come?

 

[jaguarr]

Huge news if it turns out to really work. With HIV being the adaptive virus that it is, though, it may just wind up breeding a strain of the stuff that is even harder to kill off.

jag

 

[rizzo51]

heres hoping it dosnt make something worse. It would be so nice to finally find a cure

 

[The Squirrel]

Here come the mutant zombies?

 

[Kable24]

Is it a condom?

 

[Superman4ever]

Is it a condom?

Your mom can only do so much!

 

[Beanjuice]

Here come the mutant zombies?

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thats exactly what im thinking. and i just read about a prophesy that there will be zombies at the Olympics. Stupidest thing i have ever read. but hmmmmmm...

 

[jaguarr]

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thats exactly what im thinking. and i just read about a prophesy that there will be zombies at the Olympics. Stupidest thing i have ever read. but hmmmmmm...

Link, please?

jag

 

[Beanjuice]

Link, please?

jag

wont let the link post, i dunno why but here is the thing

" Nostradamus prophecy, Century 10, Quatrain 74-

>The year of the great seventh number will be accomplished.

7 accomplished is 8.

>It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter;

the olympics.

>Not far from the great millennial age.

2000, (thus 2008)

>When the buried will go out of their tombs.

Prepare yourselves. Z-day is near."

 

[jaguarr]

Okay, thanks for posting it. I will promptly disregard it, now.

jag

 

[Beanjuice]

Okay, thanks for posting it. I will promptly disregard it, now.

jag

exactly, dumbest thing ever right?....but i still am gonna go to my storm cellar to watch the Olympics

 

[kane9321]

I AM LEGEND comes to mind

 

[Obi-Ron]

I.M. Weasel comes to my mind.

 

[Krypton Girl]

I came to the HIV thread and ended up reading about zombies at the Olympics. Interesting.

 

[SWAT]

*croses fingers* Zombies!!

 

[jaguarr]

*croses fingers* Zombies!!

Correction. Communist Zombies who want to eat Tibet.

jag

 

[Nirvana]

I want to see a link to the Zombies at the Olympics article.

 

[chaseter]

HIV can be stopped dead in its tracks using a revolutionary technique for "silencing" genes, a study has shown. The discovery raises the possibility of a treatment for HIV that does not involve potentially toxic anti-viral drugs.

Scientists have found that RNA interference – where genes are artificially silenced using a natural molecular switch in the cell – can inhibit the replication of HIV in human blood cells.

Professor Premlata Shankar of Texas Tech University, who carried out the work when she was at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said: "RNA interference has great potential as an antiviral treatment... We think it has real promise, but there is a lot more to be done."

The results are the first to demonstrate the success of RNA interference in animals. Priti Kumar, of Harvard Medical School, said: "No one has demonstrated before that HIV infection can be stopped in vivo, not just in cell lines, but in animals. It implies it might work in humans." Further animal studies, however, are needed before the approach can be used on humans in clinical trials. The discovery of RNA interference won a Nobel prize in 2006.

Hey I go to Texas Tech...REPRESENT AIDS CURES

 

[Scarlet spidey]

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Sweet, hopefully it works.

 

[SWAT]

Sweet, hopefully it works.

... You got some HIV you need to beat?


I kid, I kid!

 

[BlackLantern]

Not to sound the prick....but did you all ever think there is a reason for various disease and ailments....its Nature culling the herd....people are supposed to die...some old, some young, some painfully.....

 

[jaguarr]

Not to sound the prick....but did you all ever think there is a reason for various disease and ailments....its Nature culling the herd....people are supposed to die...some old, some young, some painfully.....

So, someone who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion deserves to die, going by that logic.

jag

 

[chaseter]

So, someone who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion deserves to die, going by that logic.

jag

Survival of the fittest...they should have mutated needle resistant skin