Antibody find spurs fresh hopes for AIDS vaccine

[Doc.]

It's very, very interesting from a scientific point of view. I think it is very elegant science but actually then converting those very precise observations about the structure of this antibody and the tool that has been used to pull out the antibodies and then converting that into a vaccine, there are still significant challenges there and significant timeline

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[simonecuttlefish]

Now lets hope they find a way of researching this so it leads to a permanent ongoing therapy other than an immunisation. Can't get immunisations getting in the way of profits now can we! OK, a tad cynical, even for me. But only just .......

The discovery of northern European genetic immunity to aids infection as a probable left over effect from the black death events as a selection pressure, also looked uber cool. But I doubt getting anything as complicated as organising a genetic mutation distributed as a gene therapy is likely to happen for a very long time. http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&q=Black+Death+plague+aids+immunity&aq=f&aqi=g1g-c5g1g-c1g1g-c1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=98adce1294de1425

Anyway, here's hoping. AIDS is crap and needs to get well and truly dealt with pronto.

/me crosses fingers

 

[Case]

According to this wired article, it is highly unlikely it was plague resistance and more likely to have been smallpox resistance which coincides with AIDS immunity (sauce).

 

[monitoradiation]

As much as I'd like this to be the cure for aids, this'll take awhile before anything comes to market.

At least science works, though.

 

[Case]

I heard sickle cell anaemia is a bulletproof way of not contracting AIDS... then again... having sickle cell anaemia itself sucks.

 

[DepricatedZero]

Wow.

That's awesome.

I love science.

I'm sure it'll take a long time still. But think of the guys who have been working at this for 10 years, it's got to be exciting. I bet there's a Nobel Prize for the person who actually finds the cure.

 

[simonecuttlefish]

I heard sickle cell anaemia is a bulletproof way of not contracting AIDS... then again... having sickle cell anaemia itself sucks.

Now. this is old and rusty, but I thought I read ages ago that "sickle cell anaemia" was a great way of surviving the selection pressure of endemic malaria? Anaemia might stuff you up, but you prolly got a few shags in before it "might" have killed you, as opposed to copping a dose of malaria as a kid.............. or something?