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| New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains |
| 2017-09-22 |
| [BBC] Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus - making it harder for HIV to resist its effects. The work is a collaboration between the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. The International Aids Society said it was an "exciting breakthrough". Human trials will start in 2018 to see if it can prevent or treat infection. Our bodies struggle to fight HIV because of the virus' incredible ability to mutate and change its appearance. These varieties of HIV - or strains - in a single patient are comparable to those of influenza during a worldwide flu season. So the immune system finds itself in a fight against an insurmountable number of strains of HIV. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 I, I,...I'm having trouble visualizing a tiny Raquel Welch. Posted by Skidmark Appears the reassignment is working. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-22 20:26 |
| #7 I, I,...I'm having trouble visualizing a tiny Raquel Welch. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-22 18:30 |
| #6 you can't block CD4 OK, but what if we made little nanobot submarines that would go out and hunt down the invading viruses. Like in that movie Fantastic Voyage. Also Raquel Welch. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-09-22 17:10 |
| #5 Dearth, let the Zionist win. I think he may have certain insights into things genetic. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-09-22 16:50 |
| #4 Darth, you can't block CD4 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-22 14:17 |
| #3 Not bullshit. Antibodies block certain receptors. Problem with HIV is our body doesn't make one well for the protein receptor it attacks. Some people have a mutated version and are immune from the virus. Creating an antibody in the lab and using an infected monkey or pig to pump out more of them isn't too far out there. They have been doing it for years against other viruses. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-09-22 09:50 |
| #2 Antibody? I call bullshit. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-22 07:58 |
| #1 Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, the president of the International Aids Society, told the BBC: "This paper reports an exciting breakthrough. Even more exciting Prof Bekker would be the discovery of an 'antibody' that attacks fok'n CANCER, which is killing the rest of us who are NOT buggering one another. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-22 06:21 |