Nanoparticles made from Bee Venom can potentially kill HIV
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[QUOTE]Earlier this week we reported on the remarkable news that [URL="http://io9.com/5988214/hiv-has-been-cured-in-a-child-for-the-first-time"]a Mississippi-born baby was cured of HIV[/URL]. Now, as if to show the disease that it's days are truly numbered, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that nanoparticles infused with a toxic bee venom can kill HIV. The researchers hope to take this new compound and develop a vaginal gel that can prevent the further spread of the disease.
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The key to this discovery, which was made by Samuel A. Wickline and his team at Washington University, involves [B]cytolyic melittin peptides[/B]. Melittin is found in bee venom, and it has the fortuitous trait of being able to degrade the protective envelope that surrounds HIV.[/QUOTE]
This is simply fantastic, course we may have to change the nanoparticle shell composition down the road, due to:
[QUOTE]"Theoretically, there isn't any way for the virus to adapt to that. The virus has to have a protective coat, a double-layered membrane that covers the virus."[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://io9.com/5989525/nanoparticles-made-from-bee-venom-can-kill-hiv"]Source[/URL]
washington university
hell yeah
death by bees hiv fucking owned m8
[QUOTE=Vasili;39850344]death by bees hiv fucking owned m8[/QUOTE]
Took me about fifteen seconds to realize you didn't actually type bee hive.
Hiv is allergic to bees, what a fucking scrub.
Watch as the little bastard develops a resistance to it regardless
Looks like we're gonna have to start looking for [b]hiv[/b]es of 'em!
[sup]I am so sorry.[/sup]
I wonder if pharmaceutical companies will be interested this time to help humanity instead of making money.
So bee stings really does cure stuff.
[QUOTE=Krusher;39850694]I wonder if pharmaceutical companies will be interested this time to help humanity instead of making money.[/QUOTE]
"Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?"
[quote="article]The nanoparticles were endowed with a kind of filter that prevents healthy cells from coming into contact with the toxin. HIV, on the other hand, is small and it sifts through these filters, thus exposing it to the toxin.[/quote]
That's fucking ingenious.
[quote]The researchers hope to take this new compound and develop a vaginal gel that can prevent the further spread of the disease.[/quote]
"Vagisil: Now with...bee....venom for...your...vagi-hm."
"Yeah we're gonna need to workshop that ad campaign a bit"
[editline]9th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;39852029]That's fucking ingenious.[/QUOTE]
I'm actually surprised that there is nothing in the vagina that is as small as HIV (Yes, thank you, I can see the penis jokes from orbit) given the fairly delicate ecosystem that is a vagina. It doesn't take much to kill the important bacteria in there and set things off balance.
I don't beelieve it!
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;39852091]I don't beelieve it![/QUOTE]
That was terrible.
Regardless the medical community must be positively buzzing about this.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;39852104]That was terrible.
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How can you have a bee related thread without corny bee puns?
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;39852116]How can you have a bee related thread without corny bee puns?[/QUOTE]
True, I guess I stung you before, I apoligise, I shall be on my best beehaviour from now on.
By the time this can be used we will run out of bee's
Save the bees
We should look to nature more often for the cures of diseases, since they themselves are natural.
Nanoparticles made from Bee Venom can [B]potentially [/B]kill HIV
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[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;39854773]We should look to nature more often for the cures of diseases, since they themselves are natural.[/QUOTE]
dont be ignant nature isnt a cure all. its a huge source we can draw from but its not as if we aren't drawing from nature enough already, and its not like nature is an empirically better source for solutions than anything else
ur logics not logical sry
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;39854871]dont be ignant nature isnt a cure all. its a huge source we can draw from but its not as if we aren't drawing from nature enough already, and its not like nature is an empirically better source for solutions than anything else
ur logics not logical sry[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying it's better and they should use nothing else, but it is a fact that often cures are found somewhere within natural things
[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;39854906]I'm not saying it's better and they should use nothing else, but it is a fact that often cures are found somewhere within natural things[/QUOTE]
"since they themselves are natural"
implies a difference between "natural" based solutions and others
Here's a picture of what doctors of the future might look like:
[IMG]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080701104414/metalgear/de/images/4/4a/The_Pain.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Camundongo;39856671]Here's a picture of what doctors of the future might look like:
[IMG]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080701104414/metalgear/de/images/4/4a/The_Pain.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Those are hornets and wasps.
Hmm... I wonder if hiv hates wasps aswell...
So basically, if you have HIV, stick your bum into a bee hive?
[QUOTE=dass;39857564]Those are hornets and wasps.
Hmm... I wonder if hiv hates wasps aswell...[/QUOTE]
He also fires BULLET BEES that home in on you.
Injections are a soft option really.
[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;39854773]We should look to nature more often for the cures of diseases, since they themselves are natural.[/QUOTE]
Everything is natural. HIV is natural. Cancer is natural. Plastic is natural. Everything that exists is part of nature.