[QUOTE=DrTaxi;40453906]wait what[/QUOTE]
What they probably mean with "lure it out from it's hidings" is to make it vulnerable and curable.
I'll admit I haven't read the study, but I still don't really understand. How would they 'make HIV vulnerable', as in, create a vulnerability where it doesn't yet exist?
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;40457038]I'll admit I haven't read the study, but I still don't really understand. How would they 'make HIV vulnerable', as in, create a vulnerability where it doesn't yet exist?[/QUOTE]
It's because HIV impacts the system, making the system think it's attacking the virus - but instead hitting the human body. This way it can hit the virus instead.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;40453906]wait what[/QUOTE]
The immune system can only attack diseases if it knows how they 'look'. This'll give the immune system a chance to do so. Or so I think.
[QUOTE=Riller;40457067]The immune system can only attack diseases if it knows how they 'look'. This'll give the immune system a chance to do so. Or so I think.[/QUOTE]
It works the same way as a Anti-Virus (hence the name :v:). It can only attack how it knows it can. Else it can just do harm to itself.
Finally, if I had sex at all I could do it without condoms now!
[QUOTE=DrLuckyLuke;40457231]Finally, if I had sex at all I could do it without condoms now![/QUOTE]
Like you had any action in the first place :v:
[QUOTE=DrLuckyLuke;40457231]Finally, if I had sex at all I could do it without condoms now![/QUOTE]
You might want to look up other STDs...
I'm kind of expecting for the cure (if it ever does) to come from somewhere like Denmark, where maybe big pharma/healthcare can't dig its claws into. It'd become cheaper to cure than to treat and they'd probably lose out big time.
If this turns out to be the cure I'm going to feel bad for all the people who died before they had a chance.
Funny how it's only just appearing on foreign news sites now, the news are close to three months old.
[QUOTE=Chrille;40458405]Funny how it's only just appearing on foreign news sites now, the news are close to three months old.[/QUOTE]
So is there an update?
[QUOTE=ultra_bright;40458443]So is there an update?[/QUOTE]
They'll have something in a year from now. It's being tested on 15 people. What it does is that it makes HIV-cells visible, meaning that already existing HIV treatment and the body's own immune system kills them.
That's what I got.
There's one STD nobody will ever cure... babies.
[QUOTE=ah!panic;40458492]There's one STD nobody will ever cure... babies.[/QUOTE]
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If they succeed with this cure, Ill go straight to DTU campus and apologize to everyone for calling bio-techs boring.
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A gentle push, and problem solved.
FINALLY! something got to human clinical trials! this is good and we need more!
Here's a link to the clinical trial
[url]http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01680094[/url]
Alas too late to save Freddie Mercury.
What you could've been and songs there was yet to come, yet you succumbed to this cruel disease deriving the world of your skills in music.
R.I.P Freddie Mercury.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;40452318]It's called progress. They don't say "We're nearly close to a cure!" then throw all their findings away.[/QUOTE]
We don't even know what their findings were, scientifically speaking. If they've managed to lure the virus out of it's shell then that is definitely progress!
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40452628]Why is it something about Denmark but in swedish news? :v:[/QUOTE]
Because we love our neighbors. Except for Finland. They make silly jokes.
When immortality is invented I am going to feel sorry for all the people who died before they had a chance
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No one posted the english news article?
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10022664/Scientists-on-brink-of-HIV-cure.html[/url]
[editline]29th April 2013[/editline]
Note:
[quote=article]Dr Søgaard stressed that a cure is not the same as a preventative vaccine, and that raising awareness of unsafe behaviour, including unprotected sex and sharing needles, remains of paramount importance in combating HIV.[/quote]
When a news article says they're close to a "cure", they refer to a treatment that can completely eradicate/alleviate the disease in an individual, like saying antibiotics cure a bacterial infection. A "global cure" like what has happened with small pox is still far off.
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