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- mikephimikephi, on 07/16/2008, -2/+145protein gp120...I knew it!!!
- kpmoore, on 07/16/2008, -1/+139I prefer injecting large amounts of cash.
- FreDre, on 07/16/2008, -3/+80This is like the 14th time I saw a major breakthrough on the discovery of a potential cure for HIV, Cancer, etc. on Digg.
Still, nice article. - 12916studios, on 07/16/2008, -3/+58My dad died from AIDs when I was two. He got HIV because through the blood transfusions he had needed. This was back in the late 80's before blood donations started being regulated...
I really hope this is true. A cure for AIDs would mean people like myself wouldn't have to grow up without a father. I want that for them...so that they don't have to feel the loss that I constantly feel. - hugoguzman, on 07/16/2008, -4/+56This could be a tremendous breakthrough, but for some reason, I anticipate new viral threats will evolve to keep pace with human ingeniuty.
- vexingmodstwo, on 07/16/2008, -6/+45Luckily, the vast majority of Diggers need not worry.
- ZakMcRofl, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3314th? You must be new here...
- HerbertWest, on 07/16/2008, -2/+32I hope this is true.
- cg4et, on 07/16/2008, -3/+31There are literally scores of proteins like this one that are potential weaknesses of the HIV virus. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that all of the drugs that are part of the so-called "cocktail" treatments involve blocking some combination of these proteins, thereby keeping the virus from replicating.
- BlueYetti13, on 07/16/2008, -2/+27So....the cure for HIV......is.....lupus?
- catcher6250, on 07/16/2008, -2/+23That guy on the left is awesome
- WhiteShadow89, on 07/16/2008, -4/+21The all powerful DIGG cures yet another terminal illness. /golfclap
- bjornski, on 07/16/2008, -9/+25"Hey! They just found the cure for AIDS! You just have to inject yourself with all your cash! Woohoo! "
- Aroundtheworls, on 07/16/2008, -1/+15So have others...
"Some 15,000 vials of a colorless, odorless, waterlike liquid are lined up in trays in a room so cold, so remorselessly quiet, you can't help thinking of it as a tomb. In a way, it is. Each vial contains a one-milliliter dose of a product known as gp120, which has cost its manufacturer, Genentech, $100 million and untold grief. Is gp120, as some scientists believe, a crucial first approximation of the desperately needed vaccine to prevent AIDS? Or is it, as others say, nothing more than expensive dishwater? No one knows. Neither Genentech's product nor a similar vaccine made by Chiron Biocine has yet been tested enough to tell. So far, no vials have passed through the enormous steel doors to the loading dock beyond and from there into syringes and into the arms of the 10,000 volunteers whose bodies alone can answer the question. Instead, the vials sit and wait, with nothing to interrupt their silence but a workman's boom box"
Link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990 ...
Click on the link and take a look at the date of that article. - marksism, on 07/16/2008, -3/+16you are aware that it is possible to research more than one thing at once, right? You've been playing a bit too much Civilization.
- ATLien74, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12It pretty much goes in the "Legalize Weed" section.
- KyleGoetz, on 07/16/2008, -1/+13You assume that not a single scientist who worked on a cure would leak to any HIV-infected family member that, "Hey, you know we found a cure."
Do you seriously believe every funded HIV-researcher (including at public schools like UTHSC) in the country is that corrupt? - snotrokit, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12I believe you will have to inject a mixture of disbar, cease and desist.
- kerouaciandream, on 07/16/2008, -2/+13That's a fairly hefty accusation to make without specifying who "they" are. I can only assume you mean drug companies, and I think you're giving them credit for a lot of power they don't have. Research into a cure is funded by many sources, many of which don't have a monetary interest in suppressing a cure, such as governments, non-profit organizations, and drug companies who don't hold patents on the antiretroviral drugs.
Beyond that, it would be a pretty idiotic researcher who would bow to any kind of financial pressure when it comes to a cure for HIV. After all, do you really think that, if this development leads to a cure, the researchers in the article will ever be hurting for grant money ever again? With a line like "Cured AIDS" on their resume, people will be lining up to fund them. Once they've gone through their Nobel money, that is. - FeloniusMonkey, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12No Kumar, daddy is not coming on anything!
- tapeworm77, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12Buried for obviousnessnessness... ness.
- emdanan, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11True, there are many breakthrough lately in the world of HIV treatment, but do not forget 2 things:
1) Most of those breakthroughs are about ways of CONTROLLING HIV and preventing it from spreading. This one is about destroying it altogether.
2)All the breakthroughs you've heard of haven't been buried or forgotten, it just takes a lot of time to receive permission to commercially propagate a drug. The different stages of testing (designed for the public's safety) take a few years... be patient.
This, anyway, is WONDERFUL NEWS! :-) - RudeTurnip, on 07/16/2008, -2/+13Am I the only one who went out and bought a ton of Magic Johnson trading cards when he announced he had HIV?
- zooplibob, on 07/16/2008, -4/+15Uhh those wouldn't be the weakness, those would be the targets of HIV.
- funkydunks, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10jesus man i'm sorry. that is horrible. I lost my sister. not to aids thought...cancer. it does suck.
- aspec, on 07/16/2008, -5/+15I got some bad news for you: http://www.whiotv.com/news/15739816/detail.html
Maybe you should get yourself checked, Fred. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -1/+11Digg users help cure it by not having sex
- ElGanyan, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10Digg needs a "Cure for HIV/Cancer" section!
- DiggzDE, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10Pew Pew!
- megaton, on 07/16/2008, -1/+10Yeah? Well, virii don't have frickin LAZOR BEAMZ!!
Take THAT, evolution! - marcusbrutus, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9It's not Lupus!
Sorry someone had to say it. - coleki, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9it's never lupus!
- Godwhacker, on 07/16/2008, -1/+10True - but this discovery is markedly different. Instead of attacking replicating proteins with a chemotherapeutic agent (the category of medicine that all current AIDS drugs fall in), they have discovered a naturally occurring immune response that does the job of killing the virus far more effectively, and hopefully without all the dreadful side-effects. Only time will tell.
- cplusplus, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9The article says Pathologists **Believe** They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel Of HIV.
And the headline on Digg says "Major Discovery". Doesn't seem so accurate to me. - StrawberryFrog, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Dugg because the article is actually detailed and technical, yet readable and I learned stuff from it.
- salinemist, on 07/16/2008, -14/+22Cure for AIDS: Stop ***** strangers, stop sharing needles.
- allatti2d, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7From the article, it appears that this particular protein contains certain amino acids, which are the steady-state building blocks of AIDS. Since HIV is constantly changing and adapting, we can't kill it; and what is worse is that there are so many strains all over the world that are constantly changing. It looks like these scientists found the common ground to target, regardless of the strain -- the soft underbelly, as it were.
Good for them! I just hope the cure doesn't create more problems. I thought it was interesting that they are using antibodies from people with lupus to target these nasty little AIDS amino acids! - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Yeah, but a lot of people are simply going to refuse the first one.
Me? I can't get laid anyways so it doesn't matter. - krische, on 07/16/2008, -4/+11Yeah its been about a month since the last break through AIDS article on digg. Now we just need another article about some breakthrough in solar energy and the universe is balanced.
- jedicor, on 07/16/2008, -4/+11...quit wasting their time on it? Why? Because it'll just go away in the long run? Because it's no big deal? Take a couple stupid kids who like to have sex. One of them is likely to get aids. They're just as likely to not know or care, and continue to spread it. Multiply a few generations. Is it a big enough problem yet? We're already several generations into this problem, and it's only getting worse.
Cancer can be driven off, successfully removed, or in some cases, it's terminal. AIDS doesn't come in a thousand varieties that vary from simple to fatal. It starts at life-threateningly debilitating and proceeds to fatal after that. - JBrown99, on 07/16/2008, -2/+9There are 2.5 million children with AIDS, almost all of whom got it simply because their mother had it.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Why don't you contribute by taking yourself out?
- jacobdis, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7HIV isn't the only STD.
- enVisionGTR, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Do you understand how much money research commands on a day to day basis? Have you taken a microbiology or biochemistry lab and were expected to explain the difficulties and mishaps that go on during experimentation, not to mention the amount of trials and errors. It is not simple as adding X to Y to create Z. It is difficult enough to establish a control in a lab. It's even more difficult knowing that 6 billion people have 6 billion different genetic sequences that can be affected by many different pathogens, let alone a constantly mutating organism such as HIV.
Medical science demands more money than any other educational field due to the equipment and supplies needed which to say the least, are not cheap to create because it is tedious and time consuming to produce. Scientific equipment are not consumer like ipods or tvs where the components are constantly getting cheaper on an exponential basis.
Instead of expecting a revolutionary development, people should expect the outcomes to be evolutionary. - Carbonizer, on 07/16/2008, -2/+9It's because he can afford the medicine mixtures needed to keep HIV in check inside his body
- drgreenberg, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Do you realize how much more you could charge for a cure? Far more than the cumulative cost of treatment medications, since those don't necessarily work forever and most people would pay quite a lot to get rid of an ultimately fatal disease.
- the1danimal, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Haha why didnt Magic tell us earlier! So many lives could have been saved!
- alpha94, on 07/16/2008, -2/+7There are many causes, you want to give up on all of them because you think cancer is the one and only one to try and resolve?
- KyleGoetz, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5You typically don't win a Nobel prize until decades after your research comes out. For example, the Nobel Committee wouldn't want to award a Nobel prize the year this cure comes out, and then 10 years down the road we learn that the cure causes cancer, birth defects, and a weak autoimmune system in babies.
- tkhan456, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5This freaking awesome! However, the guy who figured this out (the indian guy on the left in the picture) is a terrible terrible teacher! hahaha. He thought my class a few times last year and man he sucks. But apparently he's a good researcher so kudos to him!
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