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Thread: Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains |
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Saw this in the news today:
Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains I realize this is a news article and could appear in the other thread, but I felt this was big enough to own its own thread. - scuba31 |
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Dan60
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I liked the following quotation (from towleroad.com) related to such discovery:
"I like the sound of "Donor 45" more than the sound of "Patient Zero". Cautiously optimistic, although the leader of the research warns, "We're going to be at this for a while." I hope Donor 45 doesn't wind up like Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose "HeLa" cells "helped cure a generation" of various maladies thanks to their unique ability to thrive once reproduced but who never received money, credit or thanks. Of course, Lacks never gave consent for her cells to be used, while Donor 45 did. (Thank you, Donor 45.)" |
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sk..
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Ah yes, the ubiquitous Hela Cells, that literally turned up all over the world, whether you wanted them or not!
PS. What about the other 9% of HIV Strains? What is going to make them go away, and do you intend to create a thread all on its own for those illusive strains? Be inclusive. |
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I heard about mosaic vaccines. will the computer calculations be able to help finding the hiv vaccine candidates that can activate our immune system to produce antibody that can neutralize most of hiv strains. should we also have the project for that too?
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I heard about mosaic vaccines. will the computer calculations be able to help finding the hiv vaccine candidates that can activate our immune system to produce antibody that can neutralize most of hiv strains. should we also have the project for that too? Not a bad idea. Although with breakthroughs such as the vaccine, the end of AIDS might be near anyway. |
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Hardly!
Those with the Virus will not benefit from a vaccine that reduces the likelihood of contraction but offers nothing to the infected. |
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