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Breakthrough in fight against fatal Ebola as new drug saves 100% of monkeys tested! (Praise God!)
Daily Mail ^
| 10:57 PM on 29th May 2010
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 05/29/2010 4:21:54 PM PDT by Niuhuru
A gene silencing approach can save monkeys from high doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola virus in what researchers call the most viable route yet to treating the deadly and frightening infection.
They used small interfering RNAs or siRNAs, a new technology being developed by a number of companies, to hold the virus at bay for a week until the immune system could take over. Tests in four rhesus monkeys showed that seven daily injections cured 100 per cent of them.
U.S. government researchers and a small Canadian biotech company, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, worked together to develop the new approach, described in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical; Testing
KEYWORDS: canada; canadian; disease; ebola; gene; genes; genesilencing; genetherapy; lethal; miracle; monkeys; pharmaceuticals; researchers; science; scientist; scientists; unitedstates; us
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To: Niuhuru
Breakthrough in fight against fatal Ebola as new drug saves 100% of monkeys tested!Monkeys are happy. :)
Dustin Hoffman and animal rights wackos, not so much. ;)
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posted on
05/29/2010 5:36:39 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: Niuhuru; FlingWingFlyer; CholeraJoe; Quix; All
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posted on
05/29/2010 6:18:11 PM PDT
by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: Niuhuru
Praise God is right.
Ebola in the age of air travel is a horror unimaginable.
We have been spared so far.
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posted on
05/29/2010 6:18:13 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: bgill
Will check it out.
Thanks.
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posted on
05/29/2010 7:35:41 PM PDT
by
Quix
(THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: Niuhuru
Excellent news. Ebola has always been a problem as it kills faster than the immune system can respond. This was a VERY controlled test. The details of the Ebola in use were known in advance. The necessary RNA elements were produced in sufficient volume. The concept worked as expected (hoped). It doesn't necessarily mean that it solves the problem for someone infected with a different strain of Ebola for which there isn't pre-produced, tested and usable RNA to achieve the suppression.
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posted on
05/29/2010 7:41:50 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: anymouse
“’Dustin Hoffman and animal rights wackos, not so much. ;)”
Celebrities have no place in any area commenting about much of anything.
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posted on
05/30/2010 6:21:22 AM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Niuhuru
"Rock stars. Is there anything they don't know?"
Apparently you missed that my reference to Dustin Hoffman was to the movie "Outbreak," not any off-camera comments that he may or might not have said. I'll try not to be too subtle in my humor next time.
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posted on
05/30/2010 12:45:46 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: anymouse
Sorry. I have been unable to grasp anything subtle these days. My brain is fried from work.
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posted on
05/30/2010 1:38:11 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Niuhuru
At least you have a job. The 0bam Depression has many of us humor-less, if not job-less. Hopefully on Jan. 21, 2013 Obam will be job-less along with a lot of Democrat Congress critters.
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posted on
05/30/2010 3:07:39 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: anymouse
“Hopefully on Jan. 21, 2013 Obam will be job-less along with a lot of Democrat Congress critters.”
If not sooner. As for the Ebola, this is marvelous. Just wonderful.
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posted on
05/30/2010 4:01:51 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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