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Scientists think they've found HIV weakness

upi.com — Paul's group engineered antibodies with enzymatic activity, called abzymes, that can attack the virus's weakness. "The abzymes recognize essentially all of the diverse HIV forms found across the world. This solves the problem of HIV changeability," Paul said. "The next step is to confirm our theory in human clinical trials."

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  • Cheeseman1208, on 07/20/2008, -3/+307Digg: Curing HIV weekly since 2004.
  • DismantleRepair, on 07/20/2008, -2/+207So here's this HIV virus...

    ...and you attack its weak point for massive damage.
  • ZephyrNinety, on 07/19/2008, -5/+104I hope they find a cure within my life time. It would change the entire world for the better.
  • dgaspard, on 07/20/2008, -7/+95Chris Rock said it best. The money is in the treatment. Not the cure. They're still pissed they cured polio.
  • TecK415, on 07/20/2008, -6/+88We all know the cure for HIV is CASH! Injected into your bloodstream.
  • sockpuppets, on 07/20/2008, -0/+59My mice are cancer and aids free. Thank you, Digg.
  • goeric, on 07/20/2008, -3/+57Again?! With all these cures you'd think we'd have at least one.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+55Even prostitutes have standards.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+50And cancer.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -3/+46Great, now I can go back to having unsafe sex with prostitutes!
  • JesusHimself, on 07/20/2008, -0/+39It's still in beta.
  • Dokument, on 07/20/2008, -1/+29heres how i beat hiv the first time. up up down down left right left right B A select start. its harder once you get to legendary
  • pandorazboxx, on 07/20/2008, -3/+30I thought the cure was large amounts of money.
  • nmcphee, on 07/20/2008, -1/+26make sure to attack while its tail is down
  • statuescrumble, on 07/20/2008, -2/+26If I had a dollar for every time I heard this, I'd have enough cash to inject to cure AIDS for everyone.
  • sockpuppets, on 07/20/2008, -1/+24ZING!
  • McMaster88, on 07/20/2008, -0/+22Over 9000 damage?
  • intuin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+19It's ridge racer! RIIIIIDGE RACER!
  • JonTheGoose, on 07/20/2008, -0/+19MORE DOTS MORE DOTS!!!
  • danesis, on 07/20/2008, -0/+16HIV is one of roughly 20 STD's, so careful with the prostitutes...they will give you an infection just by looking in their direction.
  • trogdor282, on 07/20/2008, -3/+19Ehh, that's a conspiracy theory. The money's on having the patent for the cure, thus cutting everybody else out of the loop. Like all corporations they're all perfectly willing to shoot themselves in the foot for short term gain.
  • CaptainSpork, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15The cure will retail for, 599 US dollars.
  • thekms, on 07/20/2008, -3/+17It seems like there's always someone saying that they (almost) have the cure, but nothing ever really materializes. For everyone's sake, lets hope this the real thing.
  • bwdd, on 07/20/2008, -1/+15Don't forget diabetes.
  • peestandingup, on 07/20/2008, -0/+13Have fun with your herpes, syphilis & genital warts.
  • Mist0r_Wiggles, on 07/20/2008, -7/+20stories like this one will never make it to the "next step"
  • fohktor, on 07/20/2008, -1/+14Not to defend conspiracy bs, but the real money would actually be in having the patent for a treatment. Curing a patient makes them no longer your customer. A life long treatment though... mmmm $'s.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+12Diabeetus.
  • randyzaia, on 07/20/2008, -1/+13Ah Chuck Norris jokes - funny for about five minutes in 2005.
  • RobotCitizen, on 07/20/2008, -0/+12Polio? Measles/Mumps/Rubella? Yearly Flu shot? Shingles vaccine? All viruses.
  • sinbonders, on 07/20/2008, -2/+14I don't think the above replies got the joke that HIV is a sexually transmitted disease, making Digg an effective cure.
  • Owwmykneecap, on 07/20/2008, -3/+14Lets all make speculative comments, with none of being scientists or anything...



    {well actually i am a scientist but this aint my area... :) ]
  • robbob, on 07/20/2008, -1/+11Why didn't they just ask Magic Johnson?
  • bysin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10They're not just sure, they're HIV positive.
  • randyzaia, on 07/20/2008, -8/+18As one generally has to have sex to get AIDS, I question the relevance of this story for the Digg audience.
  • dgaspard, on 07/20/2008, -1/+11wow.... to all you guys....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
  • chrs7637, on 07/20/2008, -4/+14Burried because the cure was already discovered and it is a pure concentrated shot of cash directly into the blood stream
  • Zombi, on 07/20/2008, -0/+9Yeah, you'd think. But it's a complicated virus. This is a very big step in the right direction though.
  • tech42er, on 07/20/2008, -0/+9Thank you South Park.
  • dgaspard, on 07/20/2008, -3/+11Blasphemy! No one could ever get blood out of Chuck Norris
  • Tyrghast, on 07/20/2008, -1/+9If we can figure out how the hell Keith Richards is still alive, we'd be very close to curing all disease.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -2/+10im hiv positive
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7The cure is based on actual science that took place in ancient Japan.

    "So here's this giant enemy virus"
  • tech42er, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7Real-time virus change!
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6I would gladly buy as many of them as I could for others. At $600, saving a human life is a total bargain.
  • JulyZerg, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Chuck Norris died when he endorsed Huckabee...
  • sinbonders, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Call it subtext or unintentional, but I think Digg.com curing HIV through involuntary abstinence is funnier.
  • stinger666, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04
  • c0mputar, on 07/20/2008, -1/+7Are you positive?
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