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- rsuri2, on 08/08/2008, -0/+245"Further animal studies, however, are needed before the approach can be used on humans in clinical trials."
Is it me or is there cure for every disease on this planet if you are a mouse? - nickycakes, on 08/08/2008, -5/+54Probably the 10th aids cure i've seen announced on digg. Let us know when theres something that's actually saving people's lives please.
- SlewDigger, on 08/08/2008, -0/+44Well they are vast, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings.
- Hockey13, on 08/08/2008, -1/+35Here's a more in-depth article from Scientific American:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=researchers-si ...
This does, indeed, seem to be great news. - Nintendesert, on 08/08/2008, -2/+31Again?
- kplo, on 04/01/2009, -3/+27that's great news!
- naner, on 08/08/2008, -1/+24I know at least three people infected with HIV who would GLADLY accept the risks in order to be guinea pigs for this treatment in human beings. They're already resigned to death and if their death can help save countless others, they're all for it.
- synystar, on 08/08/2008, -1/+24I forget who I'm paraphrasing but our descendants may one day see the headline: "Scientists Discover the Source of Most Modern Diseases - Laboratory Mice!"
- santaliqueur, on 08/08/2008, -3/+23***** humans, SAVE THE MICE!
- ZurMacht, on 08/08/2008, -4/+23Honestly I am tired of hearing about huge breakthroughs when it comes to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS... I rather see these breakthroughs put into use and application to start actually helping people.
- ralphodog, on 08/08/2008, -0/+16Yea, screw all those pediatric AIDS patients, they should have known better; same for all the rape victims.
- Ravatar, on 08/08/2008, -1/+16Also:
Stop getting blood transfusions, and stop getting into accidents in public places. Stop being born to a mother that has HIV. Don't forget to stop being raped as well.
You are a ***** idiot. - Villagemom, on 08/08/2008, -1/+13I only hope it does not cause another problem while fixing this one.
- mingleTwat, on 08/08/2008, -1/+12i want to believe
- sh0k, on 08/08/2008, -1/+12By jove, they've done it!
Again! - aksn1p3r, on 08/08/2008, -5/+15RNA altering may work for humans, but they still dont know
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -3/+13our weekly cure for HIV/cancer is here, finally.
see you all next week! - gotrex, on 08/08/2008, -0/+10Bosses
Marriage
Mortages
Education - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9All joking aside, it's because lab mice and rats have been deliberately bred for genetic uniformity - it makes it much easier to get consistent results. Biology is messy as hell, and has an incredible number of factors which can interfere with testing, so using known strains helps to eliminate a boatload of variables.
I don't remember where I read it (it must have been one of these "cancer-cure-of-the-week" articles), but it's been said that if scientists can't make a given cure work for well over 90% of the test animals, it's not worth pursuing at all for humans. That's one of the many reasons that these "BREAKING: MIRACLE CURE!!!!!!" articles are uniformly sensationalist. - AmyVernon, on 08/08/2008, -1/+9Wow. If this works as it seems to promise, it could be revolutionary and amazing.
- Erik1, on 08/08/2008, -0/+7^ Not cool.
- atchon, on 08/08/2008, -0/+7They need funding a good way to get funding is to trumpet your progress and hope people throw money at you. Also a lot of this is picked up from science journals by the media even though the scientists are just trying to share their findings with other scientists.
- drnorris, on 08/08/2008, -1/+7this is the 5th HIV cure I have read this month. We are close to a breakthrough folks.
- musikmann, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6Don't get your hopes up...HIV has already been shown to aquire resistance to this type of treatment in cell lines
- AlekNovi, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6"but when you go to primates or humans the same small concentration is lethal. " - yeah that's the main reason. Most of these drugs they find working in mice, its not that they don't work in humans, its that the effective dose is so great its impractical or deadly.
- dangerdeej, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5This isn't as big of a problem anymore now that they have better screening methods, but in the 80s, people were getting HIV through blood transfusions at their local hospitals. Also, don't forget children who were born with the disease because one of the parents was infected.
In fact, I've read (who knows if the story was credible or not) in most cases now that is the most common way of ending up with HIV and not through sharing of needles/unprotected sex. - Michaelabehsera, on 08/08/2008, -1/+6wow that is amazing long live science
- kd1s, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5There's a lot of progress being made in identifying the weaknesses of the virus. This is good news no matter what because every bit of information we glean into the workings of this virus, we arm ourselves with better treatment options.
Granted, nothing beats safe sex for decreasing the transmission of most STD's but many people are ill informed about the effectiveness of condoms for helping prevent the spread of things like HIV, Herpes, Syphilis et al.
Much of that is thanks to the Christian Right attitudes that think abstinence actually works. It doesn't. And I've seen evidence from those abstinence classes where the effectiveness of condoms is challenged. So what do kids who've been so misled do? They have sex without protection.
We're failing the young adults of this country by our failure to educate them properly when it comes to their own bodies. - allengeer, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5I'm pretty sure all these breakthroughs are the reason why Magic Johnson is still alive. Remember a while back, you got HIV, you died in 10 years. Science had no idea what it was or how it worked or how to stop it. You fast forward 25 years and you see a much less intimidating disease in terms of lack of knowledge and ability to hinder its terminal prognosis.
- atchon, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5People get AIDs too without a choice. Research into all of these areas helps out other areas by expanding our understanding of the body.
I am in cancer research and would love more money but to take away from HIV/AIDs is stupid. Especially since this comment and the one above show that you are bent on the only way of getting AIDs is to have unprotected sex which shows you don't know ***** about it. - newwildlife, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5ignorance. period.
- Godlike, on 08/08/2008, -1/+6Mice are far more simple to justify the death of.
Not that I'm a furry or anything, just sayin'. - sapo916, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4No one has been cured yet.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -3/+7Another day another HIV cure.
- atchon, on 08/08/2008, -1/+5Mice are far more simple. Which has its benefits and its problems, it is easy to find things in mice and treat them it is hard to go from mouse to human. Also due to the low volume of blood sometimes it is possible to give small concentrations of drugs to mice which work, but when you go to primates or humans the same small concentration is lethal.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Buried as inaccurate. Everyone knows that the only cure for aids is about $180,000 shot directly into the bloodstream.
- ParanoydAndroid, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4The sign in the back says, "murio por faltar Kaletra" which means, "death for lack of Kaletra." I'm assuming, given the fake kaletra box in the person's hand up front in the picture, that Kaletra is some sort of AIDS/HIV treatment, and they're protesting that people are dying and unable to get (or afford) this treatment.
- arjie, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Well, if you're really lucky you can be quite resistant to HIV-1. I was at work reading on tuberculosis some time back when I came across this little gene- CCR5 delta 32. Here you go: http://www.physorg.com/news3333.html
Hopefully you're descended from those Europeans :) - DSizzle, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Its 150,000 dollars cash injected directly in to your bloodstream.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Are you lost? This is Digg my friend.
- neotrantor, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4i've been saying the same thing
what don't mice have to worry about?
cancer
hiv
baldness
colds
what else am i missing? - lebatte, on 08/08/2008, -1/+4What is this, like the fifth time someone has cured HIV on Digg? Let me know when these methods actually going to start saving people's lives.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Of course it has. HIV and Cancer are multi-billion dollar business.
Guarantee this gets "dis-proven" shortly... - irishjays, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Do they have a cure for babies yet?
- cgruber, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3I've had the cure for AIDS for a while, it's Gypsie tears. Just don't sleep with one, coz that will give you AIDS. Oh and you'll smell like horse hooves and bacon. *sad face* Incidentatlly the two aren't mutually exclusive.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3It would take ingesting basically an ocean's worth of saliva from an infected person to contract HIV. Maybe the girls you date are more of the "sloppy kisser" type, I dunno...........
- BionicWhippet, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Ian Fleming is the author of the James Bond novels. The discoverer of penicillin was Alexander Fleming.
- Chirp08, on 08/08/2008, -2/+5fanboys
- norm7, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3no cure for a mouse trap
- vladthedecker, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3If getting RNA interference to work in humans was an easy feat we would be able to cure many diseases. Unfortunately there isn't a good way to deliver RNAi. It would likely require some form of viral vector (like gene therapy) and those have not been very successful in human trials. I'm not saying that this isn't possible at some point down the line but it isn't feasible yet.
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