Charting the extinction of the human race. This blog is dedicated to pathogens, public health and social progress.
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This is so cool!
(Source: compoundfractur)
HIV cure months away, Danish scientists say, citing novel new DNA treatment
Danish scientists believe they may have a cure for HIV “within months.”
Image 1: This photo shows HIV infecting a T-cell, which usually fights off infections in the human body. Credit: NIH/NIAID
Image 2: Researchers at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark are testing a new technique that involves flushing HIV from so-called reservoirs in human DNA. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
Researchers at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark are testing a new technique that involves flushing the virus from so-called reservoirs in human DNA.
The virus is then destroyed naturally by the body’s immune system, The London Telegraph reported.
They are expecting results to show that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible”.
Fifteen patients are taking part in the trials, funded with $2.1 million from the Danish Research Council.
If they are found to have successfully been cured of HIV, the new technique will be tested on a wider scale.
Any cure would be affordable for many of the 33 million people worldwide afflicted by the virus.
However, despite the trials Dr. Ole Sogaard, a senior researcher in the department of infectious disease warned that the efficacy in the human body remained unproven.
Medical Daily quoted him as telling the media:
“The challenge will be getting the patients’ immune system to recognize the virus and destroy it. This depends on the strength and sensitivity of individual immune systems.”
British researchers are reportedly conducting similar research through a consortium of five universities.
Both studies are aiming to find a cure for those already infected with the virus and would not result in a preventative measure for HIV or AIDS.
As with many articles purporting possible cures it’s always good to take these with a grain of salt and practice our skepticism until the results and stats are weighed in. But if it’s anything close to being true then I am glad to see this progressing into a challenge of engineering the proper tools to fight it rather than how to fight it. Let’s hope this is followed up with success.
It’ll be interesting to see the results of this trial, even though it is small.
Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)
…is a species of vesper bat native to the eastern United States, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda and some Bahamian islands. Like most bats the eastern red bat is nocturnal and feeds mostly on flying insects like moths, beetles and flies which are usually caught on the wing. Eastern red bats are highly migratory and will move south for the winter and north during the spring. Weirdly enough male and female populations migrate at different times and have different ranges in the summer. Thanks to its thick fur and small ears this solitary bat can survive freezing temperatures during hibernation, they will also wrap their wings around their body for extra insulation!
Phylogeny
Animalia-Chordata-Mammalia-Chiroptera-Vespertilionidae-Lasiurus-borealis
Communist architecture can get in me
Hello Bulgaria!
My x-ray
Only one way to get one of those……
Can you spot the fracture?
My literal first thought,
It’s in the hand!
My second thought
WHO says new coronavirus may be passed person to person
The World Health Organization says it appears likely that the novel coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people in close contact.
(Source: stgmgr)
when i find myself in times of trouble
mother mary comes to me
speaking words of wisdom
get your shit together
(Source: formerly-deannmartin)
Sequence alignments are so beautiful to me!
My Bioinformatics Project. The first picture is a screenshot of a DNA clustal O alignment in a program called Seaview. The second picture is the information in the first picture but just expressed in a dot plot graph. Basically my project is to do research on Dolphins and Bats and find similarities in their DNA and protein structures that can possibly give rise to their shared ability of “super sonic” hearing (echolocation) That diagonal line on the second graph means that I’ve found that bats and dolphins MUST have some kind of common ancestor. It’s pretty cool when you think about it, Because how does a land and sea animal that have apparently evolved separately from each other have the same genes for these “hearing” proteins.
This is 60% of my final grade. This determines if I graduate.
WELCOME TO
COLLEGESENIOR YR. OF COLLEGE.
made my day :)
