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- pyrotix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+131. Shoot blood with lasers
2. ???
3. Profit - danconia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9So does this mean I can finally bang that dirty slut that I work with?
- N3tw0rk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9"...the pulse of light from a low-power laser produces mechanical vibrations in the virus shell, or capsid, irreversibly damaging and disintegrating the virus..."
Sounds like, If this really works, it will be the greatest medical breakthroughs ever. - Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Interesting. Will it also damage other proteins in the area of the laser?
- gotamd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That's awesome. It would certainly make blood transfusions a lot safer, and could greatly aid in the treatment of HIV and similar diseases. Dugg for saving lives.
- mewainwr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! =]
- Kingfisherx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I wonder if this could cleanse all the blood in the body using dialysis or if the deep tissue stuff would be make it unfeasible as a complete cure?
- morsosky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4the immediate application would lend itself to a method of cleansing blood transfusions of viruses which would be a big deal, esp in 3rd world countries if the method can be developed at low cost. the Hepatitis bugs hang out in the liver cells and are unlikely to be cleared; HIV may not be cleared from the body, but the CD4T cells it is attacking may be salvagable bc they would be filtered through dialysis too. Would turn HIV into a chronic disease, oh, which it already is. Either way, pretty cool stuff!
- searob1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The problem is once the virus has infected your nerve cells (Herpes) or immune cells (HIV), light therapy can't reach it, because it's then embedded in your DNA. The only way to stop it then is either snipping out the DNA (recent research has shown it may be possible) or damaging the viral promoter genes so that those virus is effectively switched off. These genes can be damaged by a similar virus genetically modified to damage the DNA of its own kin.
- sanman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Well, in both cases you are using light to kill your enemies. In both cases, you'd probably want to seek publicity and overplay the potential uses, in order to gain govt research grants. It's called grantsmanship. In both cases you'd probably want to submit to scientific and engineering peer review.
- geneticlemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4"The "power density" of the laser is just 50 megawatts per square centimetre, which is low enough to leave surrounding human cells and tissue undamaged, but high enough to produce large-amplitude vibrations in a virus's capsid."
So I'm guessing 'no.' - Ogopogo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Step right up folks... Get your own Laser Blood Cleaner here...
http://szzd-tech.en.alibaba.com/product/50135888/51343575/Laser_Medical_Devices/Laser_Blood_Cleaner.html - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2actually, I'm drawing attention to Pulse Lasers. The most powerful technology we have ever manufactured.
These are the key to nuclear disarmament.
These are the key to discouraging war. - geneticlemon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Interesting find ... how much does it cost?
- maheshee11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Is a new and efficient cure for AIDS on the cards?
- trigun1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3My dad had this treatment done using UV over 10 years to treat a very rare form of Subcutaneous T cell lymphoma. They did it like very month for about a year. He's still kicking, still still has cancer but it's under control.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have no clue about laser powers... but damn.. 50 MEGAwatts. Come on.. If that's all the energy that leaves out in form of a laser, where the hell does it go? It needs to be absorbed somewhere. To put into perspective, a speaker system for a car..of about.. lets say... 2000 watts.. can shake the effing jesus out of that car. So you apply 50 megawatts. 50 000 000 watts on a surface of 1 square centimiter. It just sounds ludicrous. Our cells are a bunch of tough little fellas.
- throttlefull, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No, because the majority of the HIV virion is in the latent stage, residing within the cells, and not actively in the bloodstream.
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i dunno, penicillin's a tough one to beat. also, the move away from leeches... ya know...
- abdrahman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2subscribe to JAMA, there have been studies done... the methods you are talking about don't work.
- stukast1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It sounds like the Royal Rife machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rife
except it actually works. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Now how are they going to restrict the benefits of this find only to the wealthy? I'm sure the best and brightest are working on a scheme right now.
- sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1UV is NOT "visible light"
- XZanatos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2HARDLY. I know 'alternative' practitioners have been using electrical and/or sound square waves to mechanically break up viruses for a decade plus. I am not sure if there is any peer reviewed literature on how effective these are, but what they are doing is nothing new.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I have a feeling that it's a typo.
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2virii is NOT the plural of virus. it's not a word. get a dictionary. look it up. the plural of virus is viruses.
- idc5, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2http://5.content.collegehumor.com/d1/ch6/7/4/collegehumor.c67301e7b89bc1ac676409e4888c3f32.jpg
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yes a sort of cross reference.
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2ah! and now we know why :P
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1mri's are amazing technology as well.
- trigun1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0That's a startling new revelation! If you read the article you will see UV was mentioned. The point is, this is not a new technology, my dad had this type of treatment done over 10 years ago using the same type of machine using UV.
- Jaynix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1...and you've left that strak intak.
- karlbr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Since when is this NEW? This has been around for about 70 years!
http://www.rifeenergymedicine.com/physicistb.html - ShanShan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0if you're a bacterial culture infected with M13, then probably several NSERC grants. :P
- Epidemix, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3What do truck-mounted lasers used for intercepting missiles have to do with using visible light to eliminate viruses from blood???
- ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1...4nd y0u'v3 l3f7 7h47 57r34k in74c7.
- bluebirdgm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Heck, install these lights at the nightclubs where skanks (of both genders) hang out and you'll have a perfect eradication/prevention program in place.
- ShanShan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0hey! leaches still have their place in medicine - drawing blood flow into newly reattached limbs or appendages for one.
- ShanShan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0the treatment itself wouldn't cause mutations, no. However, resistance could quickly emerge, depending on the mechanism by which this works. If even a simple change in a non-structurally important amino acid in the capsid protein would render the technique useless, then any natural mutation found in the population of viruses would be selected for, and this immune virus would come to dominate the infecting population, rendering the technique useless.
- XZanatos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1'Alternative' practitioners have been using electrical and/or sound square waves to mechanically break up viruses for a decade plus. I am not sure if there is any peer reviewed literature on how effective these are, but from they way our medical system works they have probably not adopted these sorts of treatments because it would be ridiculously cheap to treat people this way.
- PRlME, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2....and you've left that streak intact.
- danconia, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1...and you've left that strak intact.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3He's created some sort of loop of links to other digg pages... LOL
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2INfeasible
- gwalbridge, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2'The "power density" of the laser is just 50 megawatts per square centimetre, which is low enough to leave surrounding human cells and tissue undamaged, but high enough to produce large-amplitude vibrations in a virus's capsid. It is also too low to cause genetic mutations, meaning the virus will not build up resistant to the treatment over time.'
RTFA - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2Wow, not one sensible comment on here yet...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -18/+1See also
http://digg.com/world_news/US_Army_eyes_truck_mounted_laser
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