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Possible breakthrough for AIDS cure.

Possible breakthrough for AIDS cure.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715165520.htm
Now if it only bears out in human trials.

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Sweet! It's great to see progress made in this fight.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
Sweet! It's great to see progress made in this fight.
Finally, after decades of work, to find an achilles heal of this scurge.
I bet this will generate a lot of targeted research now.

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I posted a similar thread: Thread 97061

Although it's not the same approach, but hey, the more people working in the right direction, the better...

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google "tetrasil aids"

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Originally posted by obliteration
google "tetrasil aids"
Sounds like absolute horse crap.

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Originally posted by PBE6
Sounds like absolute horse crap.
great analysis!!!

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715165520.htm
Now if it only bears out in human trials.
Let's hope HIV's legendary genetic diversity doesn't let it avoid this somehow.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Let's hope HIV's legendary genetic diversity doesn't let it avoid this somehow.
Time will tell, and it should not be decades this go-round.
I wonder if as a result of this work, similar deep effects can be found for other nasty viruses, like ebola or the universal herpes. On the herpes front, it was just demonstrated a technique that drives somehow the herpes virus out of the neuron cells where they hide out only to die from the immune system attacks. When they are hidden in neurons, they avoid attack by the powerful immune system. I'll see if I can scrounge up the citation.

That didn't take long. New scientist article I read recently, although there are caveats to the treatment:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14243-no-place-to-hide-for-herpes-virus.html

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