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- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -16/+137I'm not saying this doesn't work, it probably does, but this cure will also be shot down just like every other cure.
I really hope I am wrong and this is actually passed and made into an actual cure. - ementis, on 10/17/2007, -11/+121his best invention since the flux capacitor?
- mikemil828, on 10/10/2007, -26/+131The Christian right won't be happy about this. They were counting on HIV on stopping humans from having sex so darn much.
- OpNash, on 10/10/2007, -4/+79Truly, Incredible.
- ementis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+51true, but genital warts are still on their side.
- MrZaiko, on 10/10/2007, -4/+49Ironically to destroy the HIV virus you need 1.21 GIGAWATTS
- scotticus, on 11/11/2007, -0/+30There are no shortages of diseases to work on... I assure you that if this therapy proves promising, the technology will be licensed to a pharmaceutical company. They'll spend $500 million to $1 billion on clinical trials and if it succeeds, the drug will be sent to market. The reason there isn't a cure for HIV is because it's hard. There are literally thousands of scientists working on the problem, eager to take credit and win the nobel prize for curing a pandemic. If a cure were produced, I assure you it would be made available.
- fearlessfx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Has this been confirmed by any medical journals or other sources?
if this is true then this woman is a hero - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -9/+34of course. they will sabotage her testing or only allow it to come through if it can be made so you need 20 yrs worth of $100 shots
- NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26So, are you going to shoot yourself in the head and take one for the team?
-jcr - SuperCujo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Obviously the fact that the number of heteros with HIV outnumber ***** by a large factor means nothing to you. AIDS is still a gay disease to white bread America...
- crossmr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25a lot of ***** gets said. Your point?
- oneoverzero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23GREAT SCOTT!
- BrokenBrick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22They become Gary Busey
- sockdemon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22You know you're onto something when you don't just cure a disease, you ***** destroy it.
- 13B1303, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26hooray now I can have uninhibited unprotected sex with.... sigh
I hope it's real and saves a lot of lives though. - BootsElectric, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20There was nothing tinfoil worthy about the post, every year, paper thin tv's are "almost here!!!", a cure for aids/HIV is found, Duke Nukem Forever comes out, and an affordable hover car is "just" around the corner. And every next year, none of the ***** happens, is it so wrong to play the realist and assume the ***** isnt going to actualize itself anytime soon?
- ltkerr0r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21She probably works at an outsourced hospital :)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Phh, I never believed in that crap. The drug industry may not be the most altruistic of industries, but the cure will be made available by *someone* (although no doubt at a high price). Then the next company will develop their own cure and sell it at a lower price...
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17ok, america is corrupt, however not every country has a corrupt medical system (aswell as police, government, military, ... but that isnt the current issue)
so what is to stop this being released in another country? - Alex2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18The real fun will begin when that 'sequence' the enzyme attacks is also part of someone's DNA.
Wonder what happens to someone whose DNA dissolves? - thugbear2005, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15where we're going, we don't need roads
- ltkerr0r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16And a De Lorean
- danconia, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Exactly. People who say cures are being suppressed have holes in their theories. There are plenty of uber-rich people who would pay millions upon millions to be free of HIV... the demand is incredibly high and the supply would be whatever the person with the patent makes it. There is a lot of profit for whomever comes up with a true cure, regardless of what conspiracies Diggers come up with.
- vaxguru, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Deus Ex anyone? =P
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -25/+37And of course the drug industry will make sure this will never make it to the market
- betterth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12You guys totally missed the point. He said shot down, not "covered up and destroyed buy big pharm". He means, most things that show signs of success in small control groups or in animals, usually show a MUCH lower percentage of success in wider ranges of tests. They also can have effects too dangerous, like the possibility of shutting down your immune system, bonding with the HIV to make a super virus lol.
- Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I'd like to see you do that if you're killing yourself first
- SquigglyP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11wtf man, i can understand being a teeny bit of a jaded Digg user, but THIS is the sort of news that Digg was ***** born on. It's the kind of news that you really wish the mainstream media would get a hold of and get people interested in, instead of just throwing up new Iraq numbers all the ***** time. Digg has gone downhill, to be sure, but there's still some good ***** to be found on it, and this is actually one of the better things i've seen posted here for some time.
- ReFracture, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I'm sure in 1985 you can pick up plutonium in a local drug store!
- tyaron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10...And people who might have received tainted blood transfusions and people who's protection didn't effectively protect them, etc. If you don't get the underlying point, it's this: YOU'RE AN IDIOT! Take yourself out of the human gene pool.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10*****, I wasted my combo breaker already.
- oneoverzero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Is this possible?
A first post on a story about a medical breakthrough that isn't pessimistic? - freakk123, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12If this is true, if this works out, if this truly is a cure, well, that's just wonderful. If not, well, hopefully it's progress. Regardless, this is a good thing. Hope is a good thing, if nothing else.
And maybe I'm just too naive, but I believe that if a true cure to HIV were found, it wouldn't be bottled up by the pharmaceutical industry.
But granted, I one of those "***** sheep" who believes that the US Government didn't plan out and execute 9-11 (and yeah, I've seen Loose Change, I've read the websites), so clearly I'm just too naive about everything. - ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12white trash America
- vawksel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10There are lots of things that can destroy HIV, just most of them destroy human tissue too, so they are not usable to cure a person of HIV.
The question is, is his solution safe for use in humans. - specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Read the post above yours.
- TLAKABM, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Cure it and their market is gone. Much more profitable to offer non-permanent treatment (which is what they do now).
- nairbil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8even if it ends up on the market, the main problem will likely be the price of the treatment. I just cant see this as an end to AIDS problems in Africa. People have to be able to afford the treatment! Yes, it is a brilliant invention, but it may only end up benefiting the upper/middle classes, who may be able to purchase HIV medication already.
- WhittierPoet, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Bleh. While I'm really happy to hear her success, the data isn't something that can lead to a cure unless shown effective in-vivo models. Hopefully it'll be a success, but not every in-vitro to in-vivo model work as expected since there are so many conditional factors that are lost in the micro environment.
- ChiGGz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Meanwhile there's still no cure for HIV. Oh wait...
- atbnet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7We did eradicate smallpox...
- Sfmobius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7More than ever we are discovering multi-pronged approaches to combating the spread of HIV. Even if this doesn't turn out to be a total cure, it is an important discovery in the right direction. We can only hope it delivers in its entirety.
- scrugby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7i'll wait until the double blinds have been completed, and at 5 - 20 years before realization its a little too early for hopes to be getting up... Although if this is tangible it could lead to a whole new way of treating illnesses
- scotticus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Right, like Gardasil, which cures 4 strains of HPV and prevents cervical cancer.
- DiggMasterJ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Why would someone have the HIV genome encoded onto theirs?
- rtfizzle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7i dont have a degree in biology and i was able to comprehend the meaning of the sentence completely. so i would say it is in layman's terms.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Wow. Either that was delivered with perfect sarcasm, or you are a ***** moron. I leaning towards the latter.
- AeonTorpor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7They can't stop illegal immigrants... you think they'll stop em' from having sex? HAHA!
- Mononuclear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7They go over all this stuff in 9th grade Biology... You should get your money back from whichever school you paid for a degree in Biology..
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