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Wow, the Achilles Heels for Ebola and AIDS found the same month.
1 posted on 07/16/2008 11:11:39 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Abstinence?


2 posted on 07/16/2008 11:13:47 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: LibWhacker

Great, now can we get some more money put on cancer and alzheimers research?


4 posted on 07/16/2008 11:23:29 AM PDT by AU72
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To: LibWhacker

Oh I sure hope they solve this one.

Problem is that the same part of culture shall be the carriers of the next superbug disease.


10 posted on 07/16/2008 12:01:01 PM PDT by NoLibZone (All Democrats must be rationed fuel to reduce their hypocrisy about global warming.)
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To: LibWhacker; neverdem; SunkenCiv
How it's done:

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The abzymes are derived from HIV negative people with the autoimmune disease lupus and a small number of HIV positive people who do not require treatment and do not get AIDS. Stephanie Planque, lead author and UT Medical School at Houston graduate student, said, “We discovered that disturbed immunological events in lupus patients can generate abzymes to the Achilles heel of HIV. The human genome has accumulated over millions of years of evolution a lot of viral fragments called endogenous retroviral sequences. These endogenous retroviral sequences are overproduced in people with lupus, and an immune response to such a sequence that resembles the Achilles heel can explain the production of abzymes in lupus.  A small minority of HIV positive people also start producing the abzymes after decades of the infection.  The immune system in some people can cope with HIV after all.”

11 posted on 07/16/2008 12:05:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: LibWhacker

Limiting human orifices to their designed function has worked very well at limiting HIV to just certain segments of society.


16 posted on 07/16/2008 12:34:35 PM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: LibWhacker

Sweet, now we can redirect that money going to HIV research into diseases that are by and large caused by behavior.

If breast cancer had the sort of funding that HIV has had, it would have been wiped out long ago.


17 posted on 07/16/2008 12:37:24 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: LibWhacker
Sounds like Nobel Prize work.

18 posted on 07/16/2008 12:55:55 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: LibWhacker
The Achilles heel, a tiny stretch of amino acids numbered 421-433 on gp120, is now under study as a target for therapeutic intervention.

Pretty damn short. Better hope that the same sequence is not found in healthy body tissues.

19 posted on 07/16/2008 3:12:13 PM PDT by TChad
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