Possibly THE Cure

[spazzychic]

If it does what they think, it will change the world.

As ironymaiden mentioned, it could also destroy the world through wars for the resource. It's up to human nature how we wish to survive, and if we trade economics for saving lives, then perhaps we deserve what we get...

I would like to think that instead, we will take the cure to all the far places and build up instead of break down. I hope to not be proven wrong.


Amber

Comments

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

Wow how about that for potential irony. A BYU professor researching an HIV cure. Sadly, mother nature will find another way to attempt to level out human growth. The sad thing is that this is not a 'first world' problem. First worlders are over consumers not over breeders. So we have yet to get another disease that truly sets the race back a bit like the black death did. The black death lead to the renaissance through asset accrual from all the suddenly dead....sadly AIDS does not. I did a thesis paper on this a while back. It's truly sad.

[fritters.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's ironic. Saying it's ironic is like saying every single person who believes in God wants every gay person in the world to immediately drop dead.

It's a person who cares about science and people who is trying to save people. The End.

The End?

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

BYU is not an institution that very queer friendly or while we're at it non-LDS friendly. RTA the research is being done at the behest of Vanderbilt univeristy so it's not technically BYU's invention (though they are co-patenting with Vanderbilt). Also as someone who has helped a close relative transition from health to sickness to death I know the horrors of the disease. I think you are over-simplifying this a great deal.

You bring up god...and I have to wonder where you're coming from?

Re: The End?

[fritters.livejournal.com]

You bring up god...and I have to wonder where you're coming from?

L.A. but I doubt that's what you're asking.

And just because BYU is not "gay-friendly" doesn't mean they want them to die. I still think you're being reactionary. Hell, LDS peeps probably want them to live MORE than some, becase otherwise if they die they run out of time to be saved.

You inferred that BYU was a place where every member wanted gays to die. I'm just saying I don't agree with that.

[aurora77]

Wow. That could be huge. I wonder why this isn't on other news sites yet. Seems to me like something that CNN or BBC or FOX or others should have picked up.

[king-kaboom.livejournal.com]

Sounds pretty cool and much broader in application than simply curing HIV and AIDS.

[fritters.livejournal.com]

I do find that huge news, but I don't consider it THE cure. Cancer kills way more people. I'd love to have a cure for either, but I have to give the big C a higher ranking for danger to people's lives. There are things you can do to avoid AIDS, you can't just take a couple precautions and be assured of never getting cancer.

Still... good on them. Hope to God they're right and they've got it.

[fritters.livejournal.com]

I notice it might be possible to extrapolate other cures from it, so maybe it will be the one breakthrough that fixes almost everything. That would rawk. Science is just getting cooler every day.

[fritters.livejournal.com]

With power like that, there will be a world around to rule ~_^

[perlee-grace.livejournal.com]

Hello, I was pointed here by nfayre.

I think these guys are jumping the gun a bit by proclaiming "possible cure" right now. The test tube stage is still way too early to tell whether the compounds will work in animals or humans. Medical science is littered with many such pronouncements of possible cures for many diseases that worked in the test tube, but just did not pan out for one reason or another.

What raises a red flag for me is that they haven't published these results yet in scientific journals. (Though I think I did find a related paper about anti-microbial peptides derived from amphibian skin, that did show anti-HIV activity. One of the authors of the paper is mentioned in this article.) Not to burst the bubble, but it's just still way too early to tell. I guess I'm just not a fan of raising false hope.

[rebeccasama.livejournal.com]

It would be so wonderful to see that cured in my lifetime. It would sure give me hope for a lot of other diseases out there, too. I hope they have success with it, and that they do use it to save people (not charged $10,000 a shot for people without health insurence).

[lsanborn.livejournal.com]

It's still a long way off but sounds promising. I too am hesitant of scientists that make even reserved claims before doing any peer reviewed publishing. Sounds more like a play to run up the biotech co's stock. Meh.