Compound LJ001
Posted on 04/15/2010 8:42:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
Unlike antibiotics, which kill many different types of bacteria, antiviral drugs for the most part need to target individual, specific viruses. A drug that attacks a multitude of viruses -- an antibiotic for viruses, effectively -- would be a significant boon for medicine. And a group of researchers led by UCLA scientists just may have discovered exactly that.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers describe an early proof-of-concept study on a chemical they call LJ001. The chemical attacks the structure of viruses themselves, and may potentially cure a wide swath of disease ranging from influenza to AIDS to Ebola.
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WOW! This really could be spectacular news.
Lemon Juice 001?
I wonder if this stuff works on Liberals!
Compound LJ001
Ping...(Thanks, grey_whiskers!)
Sorry folks. Obamacare will nix this. Pain pills instead.
Thanks for the ping!
Well, this is a cool concept: attack at point of greatest vulnerability. The viruses have no home repair mechanism.
Maybe I am slightly jaded, but I have been reading report after report of breakthroughs in a whole spectrum of areas when it comes to ailments and disease, and yet ....nothing.
The PTB are determined to spread
DEATH
to the serfs and slaves [i.e. everyone not them]
until the global population is reduced to 200 million.
They only want health breakthroughs to be available to them alone.
They have more than sufficient means of MAKING IT SO.
GOD ALONE IS OUR REFUGE.
WALK CLOSE TO HIM, IN CONCERT WITH HIS WORD.
Nah, just the one pill. It saves money and is good for what ails you...
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