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Jul 14, 2007 7:41:57 GMT -6
Post by Katara on Jul 14, 2007 7:41:57 GMT -6
This is an e-mail I got from my German Teacher.
As I have predicted in class, a major breakthrough this week in finding an AIDS/HIV Cure has come from Germany:
German Scientists Snip Aids Virus out of Human Cells HI-Virus (dpa)
German scientists have succeeded in snipping the virus that causes AIDS out of human cells, leaving them healthy again, they disclosed Thursday (28 June) in a scientific-journal article.
The laboratory procedure, using an enzyme, offers hope of a cure for AIDS, said Joachim Hauber of the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology in the city of Hamburg.
"We have rid the cells of the virus. No one else has done this before. It's a breakthrough in bio-technology," he said.
Current therapies can only limit the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and not remove it from the body.
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in the city of Dresden was the partner in the research, reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
HIV is a retrovirus that nests in the DNA or key genetic material of infected cells.
Hauber said it was his "cautious" hope that a cure for AIDS could be found within 10 years. (dpa)
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Jul 14, 2007 8:06:19 GMT -6
Post by Kenshin on Jul 14, 2007 8:06:19 GMT -6
Did you know that there is some people, a very very small amount, that is immune to HIV/AIDS. The virus uses a harpoon like thing to stick to the cell and it folds up bringing the virus to the cell to do it's thing. Well the people who are immune it has some speical thing in their blood that attaches right to the fold in the harpoon thingy and it's can't close so the virus cannot bring itself to the cell and infect it.
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Jul 15, 2007 13:56:55 GMT -6
Post by Katara on Jul 15, 2007 13:56:55 GMT -6
Thats coolio. Know any?
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Jul 16, 2007 9:04:50 GMT -6
Post by Kenshin on Jul 16, 2007 9:04:50 GMT -6
Idk, let me give everybody I know HIV or AIDS then I'll get back to you on that.
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Jul 16, 2007 11:48:07 GMT -6
Post by Lumino on Jul 16, 2007 11:48:07 GMT -6
Statistically, no matter what disease there is, 2% of the human population will be immune to it. It is just the beauty of genetics. So no one virus can completely wipe out all life on the planet.
Now being able to find another person with the immunity in time to procreate, that is another matter all together. That and you can still carry it, and succumb to other illnesses.
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Jul 17, 2007 6:57:17 GMT -6
Post by Kenshin on Jul 17, 2007 6:57:17 GMT -6
One of the people who is immune to AIDS let them draw blood and exame him ect. Still no cure, just because there is people who can't get an infection don't mean we can use them to cure it.
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