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Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« on: November 05, 2014, 05:28:41 pm »
http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/22/researchers-delete-hiv-from-cells/

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But researchers from Temple University may have figured out a way to permanently excise it using a highly-engineered HIV "editor." Here's how it works: the team analyzed a part of our immune system that fights infection and built a "guide RNA" strand consisting of 20 nucleotides (RNA building blocks). Those strands were then injected into cells typically infected with HIV, like T-cells. There, they targeted the end parts of the virus's gene and snipped out all 9,709 nucleotides that made up its genome. Since the guide RNA strand contained no human DNA sequences, it left the host cell intact -- but free from HIV.

It isn't the miracle cure it could be yet, especially since HIV is a highly mutative virus, but it's not just progress - it's a giant leap forward.
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2014, 06:02:43 pm »
Holy smokes... this is awesome!
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2014, 07:02:17 pm »
Cue Republicans yelling about how the scientists are defying God's will.
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2014, 08:40:29 pm »
Wonderful!
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2014, 08:49:01 pm »
Hm... Well, viruses themselves are just clusters of bad code... so who's to say a leet enough haxor couldn't remove them? 

Sounds exciting.
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2014, 09:26:55 am »
Quote from: SpaceProg on November 05, 2014, 08:49:01 pm
Hm... Well, viruses themselves are just clusters of bad code... so who's to say a leet enough haxor couldn't remove them? 

Sounds exciting.

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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2014, 11:06:26 am »
This is amazing news. Now, if they can get funding to develop guide RNA strands that edit the "stupid" out of humanity...
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2014, 02:01:19 pm »
Quote from: mellenORL on November 06, 2014, 11:06:26 am
This is amazing news. Now, if they can get funding to develop guide RNA strands that edit the "stupid" out of humanity...

Sadly, there isn't a stupid gene.

You'd have to erase centuries of social conditioning by consumerism, pundits, and preachers.
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2014, 07:26:40 pm »
Quote from: mellenORL on November 06, 2014, 11:06:26 am
This is amazing news. Now, if they can get funding to develop guide RNA strands that edit the "stupid" out of humanity...
That's called natural selection.
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2014, 10:57:30 pm »
Quote from: Witchyjoshy on November 06, 2014, 02:01:19 pm
Quote from: mellenORL on November 06, 2014, 11:06:26 am
This is amazing news. Now, if they can get funding to develop guide RNA strands that edit the "stupid" out of humanity...

Sadly, there isn't a stupid gene.

You'd have to erase centuries of social conditioning by consumerism, pundits, and preachers.

"A" stupid gene, no. There's probably thousands.

Not that social conditioning doesn't matter, of course.
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Re: Scientists manage to delete HIV from a human cell
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2014, 01:20:01 pm »
Bumping for a LOL holy shite article find;

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/american-researchers-discover-stupidity-virus/ar-AA7sR5o?ocid=U147DHP

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