Australian researcher may have found the cure for aids. Praise the Lord.

[powderman]

Australian researcher may have developed the cure for AIDS  Published January 17, 2013
news.com.au     

•   Reuters

  An Australian researcher has developed a gene therapy for HIV - which has the potential to stop the virus from turning deadly.
David Harrich, an associate professor at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), will begin animal trials this year, but experiments in humans are still five years away.
Harrich has manipulated an HIV protein involved in gene expression, known as Tat, and turned it into a weapon against the virus.Using human immune system cells, known as T-cells, in the laboratory, he's shown the mutant protein prevents HIV replication.
At the same time, Harrich said the modified protein, dubbed Nullbasic, did not appear to adversely affect the human cells.
 
"So far we haven't found that Nullbasic causes toxicity in the cells we've tested," he said.
"I'm excited. Every test I've done with this agent has succeeded. It makes me optimistic it will work in humans. At the same time, I'm a skeptical scientist, and I'm going to require proof it can jump every hurdle."
 
QIMR researchers will soon begin testing the protein in mice.
"Before you can trial it on humans, it's going to have to go through rigorous testing in animals for safety," Harrich said.
In order for human cells to make the HIV-inhibitory protein in the laboratory, Harrich had to insert a new gene - a process known as gene therapy.
He said the idea of gene therapy being used as a treatment for HIV had gained momentum since the case of a man known as the Berlin Patient, considered by doctors to have been cured of the virus.
 
"He had a bone marrow transplant because he had cancer. The bone marrow from a human donor contained a mutant form of a normal protein that stopped the virus from being able to infect his cells," Harrich said.
"He now has no HIV detectable in his body."
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[BBF]

Assuming for a moment the thinking process of a radical fundamentalist I would come up with" Now God has to create another way of killing those ^&**# perverts"

[Mike in Virginia]

Some innocent persons get AIDS.  But most are perverts or addicts.  I'm not sure a cure is desirable.  If they ever truly develop a cure, it ought to be available only to those who contracted the disease through no fault of their own.  If a human being has sex with another of his own gender, or he has sex outside of marriage, or he sticks a needle into himself because he got himself addicted to something he never should have touched, that person is not much use to society, to himself, to his family.  Some people are better off dead. 

[Conan The Librarian]

This is very interesting. It helps AIDS patients, of course. I wonder what this will mean in Africa, which has an AIDS epidemic. It's also interesting because there are likely to be discoveries that will assist with other cures.

[BUGEYE]

This is very interesting. It helps AIDS patients, of course. I wonder what this will mean in Africa, which has an AIDS epidemic. It's also interesting because there are likely to be discoveries that will assist with other cures.

Would gene therapy be feasible in Africa??  That's probably pretty complicated.
But what you say about other cure might be spot on.  The flu virus for instance.  I've heard that some cancers are similar to a virus.  The future might get brighter for some folks.

[SHOOTALL]

If God had not wanted us to have a cure we would not have one.

[magooch]

So who invented AIDS in the first place?

[SHOOTALL]

a monkey in africa
who brought on the plague ?
 

[Mike in Virginia]

I shouldn't have said that.  Wasn't thinking about the epidemic in Africa.  I had in mind the people in the U.S. that brought it on themselves.  I mean to say I hope a cure is found and administered.
SHOOTALL, regarding the monkey, I think that is correct.  It had to come from somewhere.  There are some things people ought not do without expecting consequences. 
 
 
 
 

[SHOOTALL]

I shouldn't have said that.  Wasn't thinking about the epidemic in Africa.  I had in mind the people in the U.S. that brought it on themselves.  I mean to say I hope a cure is found and administered.
SHOOTALL, regarding the monkey, I think that is correct.  It had to come from somewhere.  There are some things people ought not do without expecting consequences.

If I may you point out consequences something we need to learn as children. When a child cannot be corrected with enough force to get the point across (no not abuse) . Or a child can't fail in school , can't be allowed to taste failure in sports then how in the world will they ever understand consequences ? Many try the gay lifestyle having not a clue about consequnces ot morality either. He-- homosexuality between women is often considered entertainment young girls seem to think it is expected or something.

[williamlayton]

God is far in advance of all of this--man brings things like this on threirownselves.
Blessings

[KIMBER45]

a monkey in africa
who brought on the plague ?

I hope some marsupial isn't involved in the cure using the same method.

[kennyd]

I can eliminate AIDS in one generation with the simple expedient of monogamy.

[SHOOTALL]

I can eliminate AIDS in one generation with the simple expedient of monogamy.

the problem will be getting the rest on mankind to work with you 

[SHOOTALL]

a monkey in africa
who brought on the plague ?

I hope some marsupial isn't involved in the cure using the same method.

That's a good joke I laughed . But what I read it was a bite that caused the transfeer.
 

[mrcooper]

American medical organizations will be real pissed, this AIDS thing brings in a lot of money fer them

[Shu]

Gene therapy looks good on the cancer fight also. Hopefully some good stuff will be coming out of this soon.

[BAGTIC]

The problem is that the religious fundamentalists will never allow it to happen as it involves genetic manipulation. Well it won't happen here. It will happen somewhere else where common sense prevails.

[Swampman]

Assuming for a moment the thinking process of a radical fundamentalist I would come up with" Now God has to create another way of killing those ^&**# perverts"

Excellent post......

[Swampman]

Some innocent persons get AIDS.  But most are perverts or addicts.  I'm not sure a cure is desirable.  If they ever truly develop a cure, it ought to be available only to those who contracted the disease through no fault of their own.  If a human being has sex with another of his own gender, or he has sex outside of marriage, or he sticks a needle into himself because he got himself addicted to something he never should have touched, that person is not much use to society, to himself, to his family.  Some people are better off dead.

Folks like yourself are the reason I hate religion and church.  Thanks for reminding me.

[yellowtail3]

Possible cure for AIDS? I'd love to see it - my brother has suffered for many years fromthis disease.

Some innocent persons get AIDS.  But most are perverts or addicts.  I'm not sure a cure is desirable.  If they ever truly develop a cure, it ought to be available only to those who contracted the disease through no fault of their own.  If a human being has sex with another of his own gender, or he has sex outside of marriage, or he sticks a needle into himself because he got himself addicted to something he never should have touched, that person is not much use to society, to himself, to his family.  Some people are better off dead.

those are some despicable sentiments, Mike in VA -utterly un-Christian (I'm thinking that's probably not of concern to you). All right-thinking people ought to condemn your contemptible statements... I'll take it upon myself to do so now. I'll step out on a really thick branch and guess that no one you love has AIDS? Most everyone with AIDS has a family somewhere, most of them are loved by their family.


Here's hoping that if you contract a fatal, debilitating disease, that you'll be treated better that it seems you advocate treating those afflicted with AIDS. Just hope that there aren't too many people then, like you are now.

[Swampman]

+1

[Anna]

If this is true which i doubt then this researcher has discovered a way to defeat viruses. Not just one
but all of them by they way they mutate and can defeat the body's immune system.
Your body has got to figure out the key to defeating any given virus. And that can take some time
and a lot of times its to little to late. If that virus can mutate and change that key through mutation
then your body has to start the process all over again. A lot of times by then the damage has already
been done and like with AIDs it isn't the virus that gets you . It's all the other things like neumonia
that do. By that time your immune system is so overtaxed and weakened it can no longer cope with
anything else that comes along no matter how simple that is . I will believe it when I see it .

[ironglow]

Now maybe the same doctor can find out how to fix or repair the brains of those who run about spreading that viris..

[Swampman]

Straight wives of bisexual men?

[yellowtail3]

Now maybe the same doctor can find out how to fix or repair the brains of those who run about spreading that viris..

how about those spreading their viris of hated & self-righteousness?

[Anna]

OMG , this thread has become a Zombie epidemic ! Just be sure as Ironglow has pointed out to hit
them in the head .

[mcwoodduck]

I find it odd that the country that found a cure was not one of socialized medicine. 
Why if socialized medicine is so great did Cuba, Viet Nam, Canada, England, or China not come up with the cure first?
Do you think the doctors involved in this did it for free?  Who paid for the cure?  Do you think they will sell it or give it away?

[Anna]

Assuming for a moment the thinking process of a radical fundamentalist I would come up with" Now God has to create another way of killing those ^&**# perverts"

Like God needs to figure out another way to kill perverts. With a snap of his fingers there would be
no more perverts anywhere if that is what he wanted to do. Until that we do a great job of doing that
to ourselves. No cure this extensive against the plague of viruses would be announced like some tabloid story.

[BAGTIC]

Aids was introduced  to America by a commercial airline pilot.
Most aids patients are heteosexuals not homosexuals. Most are women who catch it from men. Many children had it at birth through no fault of their own.
The extent of the ignorance on this subject is appalling but not nearly so much as the bitterness and hatred.  It is enough to make God weep amd hang his head in shame at what he has created in his own image. It is disgusting.