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2019-07-04 Science & Technology

New hope for LGBT rodent community - Researchers cure HIV in mice

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-04 01:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Iffy at best. Rodents and bats are naturally resistant to HIV - a situation that has long frustrated AIDS researchers. Leading to attempts since 2010 to first engineer susceptible rodents by splicing in various combinations of the genes that make humans vulnerable.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-04 04:44|| 2019-07-04 04:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Great headline and pic, B.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-04 04:45|| 2019-07-04 04:45|| Front Page Top

#3 How did they get the little buggers to .....?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-04 08:38|| 2019-07-04 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to go long on Gerbils.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-04 08:39|| 2019-07-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 How did they get the little buggers to .....?

They used human urban confinement and free rations as a control sample model. Nothing much else for the subjects to do.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-04 08:57|| 2019-07-04 08:57|| Front Page Top

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