Researchers Zero In On Protein That Destroys HIV 216
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from the discovering-the-crucial-bazooka-protein dept.
from the discovering-the-crucial-bazooka-protein dept.
Julie188 writes with this excerpt from a Loyola University news release:
"Using a $225,000 microscope, researchers have identified the key components of a protein called TRIM5a that destroys HIV in rhesus monkeys. The finding could lead to new TRIM5a-based treatments that would knock out HIV in humans, said senior researcher Edward M. Campbell, PhD, of Loyola University Health System."
Oblig Rodney Dangerfield (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yea. (Score:5, Funny)
"I just saved a bunch of money on child support by switching to condoms!"
Ironically ... (Score:1, Funny)
Ironically, the protein that destroys AIDS isn't folded, it's straight.
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Re:Oblig Rodney Dangerfield (Score:5, Funny)
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How old ARE you?
Does your Commadore PET still work?
Re:yea. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oblig Rodney Dangerfield (Score:5, Funny)
What do you think he's using to post you insensitive clod!
On the other hand I've heard similar stories from my Grandfather. Made especially hilarious by the fact that he was already married to my grandmother in the 70's and he says this stuff in front of her.
Re:Oblig Rodney Dangerfield (Score:5, Funny)
I was a beta tester for dirt. We never did get all the bugs out...
Re:yea. (Score:4, Funny)
Hot Damn! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm turning 40, though, so they'd better get on with it. If my emails are to be believed, I have only another thirty or forty years until pills no longer facilitate my erections.
Re:yea. (Score:1, Funny)
Ahh, the irony.
Re:So the FDA can sit on it (Score:5, Funny)
You read a LOT of Ayn Rand when you were a young, lonely and impressionable teenager, didn't you?
Re:yea. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:$225,000 (Score:5, Funny)
'The 400x part is usually meaningless. It's just 40x objective and a 10x eye piece.'
Yeah, but our eyepiece goes to 11.