Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/02/2010 2:33:40 PM PDT by decimon
Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold.
Until now experts had thought that antibodies could only tackle viral infections by blocking or attacking viruses outside cells.
But work done by the Medical Research Council shows antibodies can pass into cells and fight viruses from within.
PNAS journal said the finding held promise for a new antiviral drugs.
The Cambridge scientists stressed that it would take years of work and testing to find new therapies, and said that the pathway they had discovered would not work on all viruses.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Inner sanctum ping.
That would seem to include herpes simplex (shingles).
Hmmm, I remember "The Coffin Cure" as being an
X Minus One epi on curing the common cold.
Hurry up and get this done! I came down with a mild cold this weekend, it sucks!
They need to really work on a cure for liberialism!
Two problems:
1. This requires private funding sources;
2. It's not a virus, but a neurological problem.
ha ha. I know one of my friends had to complete some kind of questionnaire one time and it said something like, “Name a quality that you hate.” Most people wrote, “lying” or stuff like that. She wrote, “Liberalism.” LOL.
All you need is some OJ
Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.
TV Personality: So, Dr. Krippin, give it to me in a nutshell.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, the premise is quite simple - um, take something designed by nature and reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it.
TV Personality: You're talking about a virus?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Indeed, yes. In this case the measles, um, virus which has been engineered at a genetic level to be helpful rather than harmful. Um, I find the best way to describe it is if you can... if you can imagine your body as a highway, and you picture the virus as a very fast car, um, being driven by a very bad man. Imagine the damage that car can cause. Then if you replace that man with a cop... the picture changes. And that's essentially what we've done.
TV Personality: And how many people have you treated so far?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, we've had ten thousand and nine clinical trials in humans so far.
TV Personality: And how many are cancer-free?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Ten thousand and nine.
TV Personality: So you have actually cured cancer.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Yes, yes... yes, we have.
Cheers!
That's my job, you easily-distracted bastard!
Psst, to save you some time: We won!
It ain't over yet though.
Massive vote fraud to be illuminated and acted upon comin' up.
The virus shipments can be carried in tiny delivery trucks rolling down roads paved by bacteria! Yeah! ;’)
I feel better already!
Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine...ain't it a shame.
The virus shipments can be carried in tiny delivery trucks rolling down roads paved by bacteria!
IIRC, the most common scenario is that the viral infection paves the way for the complicating bacterial infection, e.g. influenza prior to staph pneumonia. It can happen in the other direction, e.g. infected with syphilis prior to becoming to be infected with HIV.
Any comments from CholeraJoe would be appreciated.
Antibodies mediate intracellular immunity through tripartite motif-containing 21 (TRIM21).
Ping...(Thanks for posting, decimon!)
Ping...(Thanks for posting, decimon!)
Here we go again. I get a 505 error the first time and then end up with a double post/ping. Maybe my ‘puter needs a nap...(8^D)
Thanks for the ping!
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