HIV/AIDS cure potentially found.

[NYCmitch25]

New drug that blocks HIV virus from entering cells.

Tokyo, July 7 : A new drug that blocks HIV from entering human cells and almost causes no side effects has been developed by Japanese researchers, reports UPI.

The drug, code named AK602, was tried on 40 AIDS patients in the US and almost no side effect was found.

When patients took 0.02 ounces of AK602 twice a day for 10 days the HIV dropped to an average of one percent, according to a research team led by Hiroaki Mitsuya of Kumamoto University.

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[IntensityX]

That would be cool if they did indeed find a cure to this horrible disease.

[Primal Instinct]

Interesting stuff. I've always felt that AIDS could be possibly be defeated if scientists could create a particular mutation/cure combination to which they could alter and then predictably steer the everchanging virus in patients towards so that it meets its demise. In a way, viruses are like complicated algorithms because they change frequently in order to prevent "hacking", so to speak. But if you could predict when a particular algorithm or in this case, viral mutation will occur, you could time a response to "hack" into it and defeat it before it mutates again.

Another avenue of research that shows promise lately is that researchers are using a common non-lethal virus to target and kill cancer (and only cancerous) cells while leaving healthy cells untouched. Common virus kills cancer cells.

[JUICE]

That would be cool if they did indeed find a cure to this horrible disease.

:agree: all those people who would be cured.

In the next few decades there will be things like that with all the medical advances their doing. Like that one on how they have brought up dead dogs to life, they can use that in humans.

[Stonecold54]

That would be cool if they did indeed find a cure to this horrible disease.

yeah now people can go back to screwing each other with no thoughts of responbility now that we have a cure. and drug users can put it on their medicaid card and we will foot the bill. but I guess it will back to business as usual in America.

[Primal Instinct]

^ Someone woke up cranky today, lol. :P

[blm]

The world is over populated as it is...

[bad14u]

yeah now people can go back to screwing each other with no thoughts of responbility now that we have a cure. and drug users can put it on their medicaid card and we will foot the bill. but I guess it will back to business as usual in America.

:agree: My thoughts exactly!

[dreamgirl]

I hope they can figure this out soon. This disease is killing way too many people.

[Gods Son]

Great News!!!!!

[rvgfrth4g]

yeah now people can go back to screwing each other with no thoughts of responbility now that we have a cure. and drug users can put it on their medicaid card and we will foot the bill. but I guess it will back to business as usual in America.

Some people call that being cynical, I call it being a "realist". lol

[Stonecold54]

I hope they can figure this out soon. This disease is killing way too many people.

people kill people with this one..unless you are getting a blood transfusion or get it in a freak accident I don't have sympathy....and I say this with one of my best friends having full blown aids...he has had zero count since he was 22 (he is now 35 or so) so I would consider him cured as he has no active strains of the virus but he can't ever go off the 3000 dollar a month drugs just in case. He will be the first to admit that it was his own mistake but he contracted it as well when it was first being understood what it is in the late 80's.

[blm]

Some people call that being cynical, I call it being a "realist". lol

:agree: (w/o..lol)

[Gods Son]

Read my sig on this one fellas

[Bouncer]

Read my sig on this one fellas

ok 50cent. :slap: