Scientists Develop Nanoparticle Which Completely Destroys Hepatitis C - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Hepatitis C now [URL="http://jezebel.com/5886869/time-to-freak-the-fuck-out-about-dying-of-hep-c"]kills more Americans than HIV[/URL] and, while there's [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5887080/hepatitis-c-vaccine-developed-by-same-scientist-who-discovered-the-disease"]increasing progress towards finding a reliable vaccine[/URL], results can't come soon enough. Now, researchers have [URL="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/09/1207766109"]developed a nanoparticle[/URL] that effectively eradicates hepatitis C 100 percent of the time. Researchers from the University of Florida have developed what they call a "nanozyme". Based around gold nanoparticles, these things have their surface coated with two biological agents. One is an enzyme that attacks and kills the mRNA which allows hep C to replicate, while the other is a short string of DNA which identities the disease and sends the enzyme off to kill it. While current hep C treatments attack the same replication process, they only work on about 50 percent of patients treated. In lab-based tests, [URL="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/09/1207766109"]reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences[/URL], the Univeristy of Florida researchers showed that their approach was 100 percent effective in both cell cultures and mice. They observed no side effects in the mouse models, either. While it's great news, such a treatment is some way off becoming available to patients any time soon. All targeted drugs have to be extremely carefully tested, as there's always a risk that they could also end up targeting healthy parts of the body by accident. Given the current problems posed by hepatitis C, though, that testing can't happen soon enough. [[URL="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/09/1207766109"]PNAS[/URL] via [URL="http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/nanorobots-are-not-a-technology-they-are-a-prediction"]IEEE Spectrum[/URL]][/QUOTE] [URL]http://gizmodo.com/5927302/scientists-develop-nanoparticle-which-completely-destroys-hepatitis-c[/URL] While cool, needs testing. Don't want it to destroy important cells, do we?

im free

And then it was never heard of again... TRY NOW, OUR KILLATITIS MEDS! AFTER THE 10TH BOTTLE, YOUR HEPATITIS WILL BE ALL GONE! (if you know what I mean)

[QUOTE=dass;36845990]And then it was never heard of again... TRY NOW, OUR KILLATITIS MEDS! AFTER THE 10TH BOTTLE, YOUR HEPATITIS WILL BE ALL GONE! (if you know what I mean)[/QUOTE]I wish we would never hear of these posts again.

Always nice seeing advances in medicine. Especially in anti-virals like these.

pharma will just buy it up.

[QUOTE=space toe;36846292]pharma will just buy it up.[/QUOTE] NO. FUCK. Human trials, motherfucker, do you know of them? This shit needs to go through a stupid amount of tests, as does every other miracle cure that "Herp a derp big pharma swallowed up" because guess what? Stuff has side effects. That new cancer cure could make you face melt after 20 years of cancer free goodness, and WE WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL IT WAS A PANDEMIC. This has been posted a million times in a million different threads about these new medicines, and people still spout this conspiracy theory bullshit.

and then this discovery will disappear next week

[QUOTE=meppers;36846393]and then this discovery will disappear next week[/QUOTE] please tell me you're joking

[QUOTE=dass;36845990]And then it was never heard of again... TRY NOW, OUR KILLATITIS MEDS! AFTER THE 10TH BOTTLE, YOUR HEPATITIS WILL BE ALL GONE! (if you know what I mean)[/QUOTE] Son, I feel you are old enough to learn about how [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial#Length]clinical trials[/url] works. [editline]20th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=meppers;36846393]and then this discovery will disappear next week[/QUOTE] You too

Hence why I say keep on dreaming. BUT NOPE ALWAYS CONSPIRACY IDIOTS RIGHT?

[QUOTE=dass;36905086]Hence why I say keep on dreaming. BUT NOPE ALWAYS CONSPIRACY IDIOTS RIGHT?[/QUOTE] nice bump

[quote]Researchers from the University of Florida have developed what they call a "nanozyme". Based around gold nanoparticles, these things have their surface coated with two biological agents. One is an enzyme that attacks and kills the mRNA which allows hep C to replicate, while the other is a short string of DNA which identities the disease and sends the enzyme off to kill it. [/quote] Wow, actually coding your own little string of DNA and creating your own little enzyme to target and attack some mutated Hepatitis-diseased cells. That's some high-end shit. Hell, once humans master this type of nano-technology, the possibilities and uses will be limitless. [i]Oh, the year 3000..[/i]

[QUOTE=Gekkosan;36906971]Wow, actually coding your own little string of DNA and creating your own little enzyme to target and attack some mutated Hepatitis-diseased cells. That's some high-end shit. Hell, once humans master this type of nano-technology, the possibilities and uses will be limitless. [i]Oh, the year 3000..[/i][/QUOTE] In the year 3000, Japan releases it's first tentacle synthetic, raising worldwide arguments about morality and starting World War 9.

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;36846364]NO. FUCK. Human trials, motherfucker, do you know of them? This shit needs to go through a stupid amount of tests, as does every other miracle cure that "Herp a derp big pharma swallowed up" because guess what? Stuff has side effects. That new cancer cure could make you face melt after 20 years of cancer free goodness, and WE WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL IT WAS A PANDEMIC. [/QUOTE] Or the AIDS cure might give you diarrhea, make all your hair fall out, and turn your blood into spiders.

Has anyone else read the Alex Rider series of teen spy novels? [sp]In one of the books they try to kill people by using gold nanoparticles, filled with a poison, they then put a protein on the outside causing the particles to accumulate in the persons heart.[/sp] This is pretty much the same, except they're curing people, not killing them :v:

Awesome, now I don't have to worry about sharing needles with homeless people anymore.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;36909447]Or the AIDS cure might give you diarrhea, make all your hair fall out, and turn your blood into spiders.[/QUOTE]Man, it would be almost worth having diarrhoea and baldness if my blood turned into spiders :v:

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;36911978]Man, it would be almost worth having diarrhoea and baldness if my blood turned into spiders :v:[/QUOTE] but what about your aids?

You scientist-folk can yap all you want all day, every day. I think we all know the truth - God in his infinite compassion deemed us worthy of taking another step towards his divine paradise (which is free of all disease - see my point?) and set things in motion for this to be discovered. God always has a plan, no matter how mysterious His ways. Peace.

Has fox news made and article about this yet raging about it being unnatural?

[QUOTE=dass;36845990]And then it was never heard of again... TRY NOW, OUR KILLATITIS MEDS! AFTER THE 10TH BOTTLE, YOUR HEPATITIS WILL BE ALL GONE! (if you know what I mean)[/QUOTE] can we please have these sorts of posts bannable

Wow seriously you guys can't take a fucking joke can you? :downs:

[QUOTE=dass;36913058]Wow seriously you guys can't take a fucking joke can you? :downs:[/QUOTE] it was not a joke I'm beginning to wonder if there is ANYTHING these damn things can't do. Coding your own enzyme sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel.

Imagine if this actually did work. My mom and my stepdad would both be cured