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Title: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: theKit on September 27, 2014, 07:09:20 pm
Fuck trying to re engineer the virus/pathogen, fuck trying to develop medicines and treatments that kill them. Here is what you do - Find a suicide host. Any virus that is depended on fucking up your cells by highjacking could easily be eliminated this way. Picture this: Bob gets AIDS - Bob get injected with millions of CD4-like  cells - These cells allow the AIDS virus to enter and then self destruct or have no internal functions the virus can highjack to reproduce - effectively becoming a virus trap.

Someone get developing.
Title: Re: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: ThaTermeneter on September 27, 2014, 07:24:52 pm
omfg why didnt ne1 ever think of this b4
Title: Re: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: ThaTermeneter on September 28, 2014, 11:17:33 pm
bump for curing AIDS
Title: Re: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: vajitosis on October 13, 2014, 09:48:00 pm
Should check out RNA interference. This imho will be the cure for most health complaints within the next 10-20 years.
Title: Re: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: ngalo1983 on October 13, 2014, 10:14:07 pm
They have a cure for aids many years ago just like cancer but why would they cure something that makes them a lot of money?
Title: Re: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: Slave of the Beast on October 13, 2014, 10:31:43 pm
OP's idea won't work as a cure anymore than HAART does.

There will still be a population of latently HIV-1 infected cells, e.g. memory CD4+ T cells and  hematopoietic progenitor cells, as well as HIV-1 being able to infect monocyte-macrophage type cells which can cross the blood-brain barrier and reside in the immunoprivileged central nervous system. There are methods being investigated to target in vivo HIV-1 viral reservoirs (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867414009933) but it will be many years before these treatments become viable in humans, assuming the virus can be fully eradicated.
Title: Re: Cure For AIDS (and other highly infectious diseases)
Post by: Umbrella Corp on October 14, 2014, 01:42:55 pm
Yeah op obviously doesn't know shit.  "AIDS virus" gave that away.