Possibly THE Cure
Feb. 8th, 2006 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spazzychic If it does what they think, it will change the world.
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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
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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
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:39 am (UTC)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.