Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity 464
Anonymous Coward writes "Researchers at the Biomedical Primate Research Center in The Netherlands have come up with a theory as to why modern chimps don't develop AIDS and its variants.
The chimps in the study were found to share a usually uniform cluster of genes in the area that controls their immune systems' defenses against disease. This lack of genetic diversity suggests that a lethal sickness attacked chimps in the distant past.
The theory postulates that approximately 2 million years ago an AIDS-like epidemic wiped out a large portion of the chimpanzee population. Those that survived developed an immunity to AIDS and its variants.
If this theory holds true it may explain why some humans who are repeatedly exposed to HIV don't get sick."
Practicing animal husbandry? (Score:2, Funny)
Phbbt, science! (Score:1, Funny)
(dang, my sarcasm meter is pegged, I had better stop now)
Subject test group? (Score:5, Funny)
How does this apply to the slashdot crowd... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Rather simple (Score:2, Funny)
That CCR5 is like the 'cells' sendmail?! Hot DAMN!
Btw, can you give me the DNA diff so I can patch it? Thanks
Sharing DNS with chimpanzees (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, now, that may be true, but I don't think ICANN would appreciate you categorizing them thusly.
Re:Practicing animal husbandry? (Score:0, Funny)
of course! (Score:4, Funny)
They are in fact shaved monkeys, and not people after all?
Re:Monkey skin condoms!! (Score:2, Funny)
WHAT THE FUCK?
Were you dropped on your head as a child? You must have been, either that, or you know what it's like to be "the defective offspring of an inefective drug user... (that is) nothing more than a drain on society..."
I come from a very low class area of a very drug ridden city, and some of the best people I have ever met, also some of the smartest, came to us from drug ridden parents. You have absolutly no right to say anyone has less of a right to live than you. You are no better than any of those people that you say should die. In fact, I'd probably say you were worse. Not only are you stupid and uneducated on the subject, (like them) but you are also prideful, arrogant, and hateful. Personally, if this is the view of the rest of the aids free world other than myself, let me find myself some aids, and get away from ingrates like you.
Thank you, come again.
Forest C Adcock
Re:Life expectancy (Score:3, Funny)