Posted on 02/05/2015 10:57:49 AM PST by Red Badger
Scientists say 'Enigma machine' has unlocked clues to the way the virus of the common cold assembles - making it possible to stop disease in its tracks
A scientific breakthrough could herald an end to the common cold, after researchers found a way to “jam” the genetic code and stop the virus replicating.
Experts said the discovery could allow scientists to design molecules which could “stop the virus in its tracks” - fending off colds and winter vomiting disease.
Scientists from the Universities of Leeds and York used a computer-based model to identify a code in the viral genome, which causes rhinoviruses, the most common group of viruses, and the cause of most colds.
They said the breakthrough means that in future, it could be possible to find a way to jam the messages conveyed by the molecules, stopping the virus functioning before disease even starts.
The breakthrough could save future generations from the misery of colds, and protect them from more serious illnesses.
However, that day could be some time off, with trials on animal viruses required before scientists are able to develop a drug which acts on the signals in the genetic code.
Experts said the findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, could help to protect people from a large group of infectious viruses.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Neither have I. Must be a UK reference to something we have another name for............
What is your cure?
Just a simple chip in the right wrist or in the forehead and all your troubles are over. Courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Yeah. We can stop the Common Cold with this vaccine, but next year we MUST use this one, and next year this one..
"This disease most affects women, children, and other federally identified minority groups, such as African-Americans and members of the tragically neglected LGBTG community. " said B.H. Obama, Jr., II, Mayor of Ferguson, MO and pro tem POTUS.
Mr. Obama said his wife Michelle Robinson's School Lunch Programs also deserve recognition in the scientific breakthrough because better nutrition means an enhanced immune response and counteracts global warming, which most affects African-Americans, women, children, and members of the LGBTG community.
Mr. Obama also promised that undocumented workers will receive any vaccine to be developed, most likely via aerial application as they stream across the border to register to vote and receive EBT cards.
I discovered a cure and haven’t had a cold last more than half a day in the past 8 years.....An Onion and butter sandwich, right?
Another vaccine. Yeaaaaa!
I dip Q-tips in hydrogen peroxide and swap each ear canal(gently) and inside the very tip (not sticking it in deep) of each nostril about 4 times throughout the day I first have symptoms It really works. My husband and kids won’t bother with the hassle of taking 45 seconds to do this and all end up with lingering colds every year. I have yet to get a cold or sinus infection since I read about using hydrogen peroxide this way.
Very inexpensive and easy.
Ugh! But it reminds me of my grandpa, he ate them all the time and lived to be 92.
Silly, they’ll spray us all like crop dusters.............That’s what the Chem Trails are all about!.................
That is interesting.
For a moment there I thought Gramps was eating the q-tips from the post above. This is a medical thread. You simply must be more precise.
Yes, I should :)
My Dad was in the ETO during WWII and the whole time he never got a cold. He said the cooks would hand out a slice of raw onion with breakfast every morning. Still had to dodge the machine gun bullets, but at least you’d be healthy when you got shot.
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Colloidal Silver kills viruses and kills bacteria, including flesh-eating bacteria.
So is copper:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper
and it’s cheaper than silver!..........
I haven’t had a cold in decades.
Stay away from children. That’s it.
Just stay away from children.
I thought it was just crazy leftists from Marin County who were anti-vaccination.
I have 6 children & my husband is a teacher, I am swimming in germs :).
Your comment makes me think of Tim Hawkins on hand sanitizer & church, makes us laugh every time we watch it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzxlv5vdN9I
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