Scientists discover gene in dna that fights HIV, able to turn it on

[The Mad Rapper]

There are too many humans on the planet as it is, we need to lose some, not keep more alive!

 

[Mr Joshua]

There are too many humans on the planet as it is, we need to lose some, not keep more alive!

I take it you're volunteering?

 

[firthy15]

There are too many humans on the planet as it is, we need to lose some, not keep more alive!

You first.

*Edit - Dammit joshua !

 

[sbi5ar]

So what scientific journal has this been published in ?

Cant seem to find it

 

[A.N.Other]

So what scientific journal has this been published in ?

Cant seem to find it

Not very good at reading the thread are you ?

 

[sbi5ar]

Not very good at reading the thread are you ?

tbh i didnt read the thread, saw the the url of the link and thought here we go......

ignorance at its best lol,

shall have a read through now that it has a bit of credibility behind it

 

[Art]

Having had a quick scan, I couldn't quickly see how they were going to target/control the read-over mechanism, which is potentially a relatively dangerous thing to have on the loose in the genome.

After a quick read-through of the paper, they didn't do anything to the premature stop codon: they transfected a working copy of the gene into the cells and got them to produce the retrocyclin using that.

In the paper they did it using techniques you couldn't do to a living person, but it looks like they could just use some general gene-therapy techniques to do it. I wonder how effective the compounds would be in humans though.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Switch them all on and see what happens As far as I'm concerned, mankind IS God. And we should be entitled to **** around with things as much as the Gods of traditional faiths did

 

[Gackt]

As far as I'm concerned, mankind IS God.

I hope you're joking, because that is the most ridiculous thing I've heard all day.

 

[antijoke]

/straps in for religious debate.

 

[tomoW1]

Science is amazing, do you hear this God!

God will smite you for this, unless you turn on your smite fighting gene!

 

[CaptainComedy]

I hope you're joking, because that is the most ridiculous thing I've heard all day.

silence lizard man, we are rebelling!

Im gonna turn on my gold-by-touch gene and buy every prostitute in the world! come men! its party time!

 

[Gackt]

/straps in for religious debate.

There was nothing religious about what I said.

I'm just not arrogant enough to believe that we are the be all and end all of the world/universe.

 

[bledd]

rock on T-virus

I'll grab my shotgun, pills, pipe and med pack

 

[checjb]

A little off-topic but bledd reminded me. Has anyone seen the Avon advert for some cream or other where the packaging looks just like the T-virus from Res Evil

 

[Grimley]

I don't want to be a killjoy, but couldn't the HIV virus mutate & develop a defence against this?

 

[ThomP]

This "junk" dna... isn't really junk, once they figure out how to activate it will give us all random "extraordinary abilitys". Telepathy, rapid cell regeneration etc

 

[Solari]

If HIV/AIDS was cured, wouldn't there be an extraordinary population explosion in Africa?

 

[Gackt]

If HIV/AIDS was cured, wouldn't there be an extraordinary population explosion in Africa?

That's all they need, more people.

 

[NiCkNaMe]

That's all they need, more people.

We need two mass leaflet drops in Africa (and subsideries)...

1. Informing them that sex usually equals babies
2. Some guidelines on STD's, most namely HIV!

That would probably solve a lot of their problems... but then again what's life without food, beer and sex ?