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Japanese scientists introduce new HIV drug
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| DjWhooCares |
Link to Article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/ind...pan-newdrug.xml
| quote: | KOBE, Japan, July 6 (UPI) Japanese researchers have developed a durable new drug that blocks HIV from entering human cells and causes almost no side effects.
The new drug, code named AK602, was unveiled by Hiroaki Mitsuya, leader of the research team at Kumamoto University, at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Kobe Tuesday, the Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday.
The drug's main feature is that it shuts out the AIDS virus at the point when it tries to intrude into a human cell.
Current AIDS medications often lose their effectiveness after a few days due to the virus' resistance, but the AK602 reacts to human cells instead of attacking the virus, said Mitsuya, a university professor.
When the new drug becomes attached to the protein that acts as an entrance into human cells for the AIDS virus, it can prevent HIV from entering.
The researchers conducted clinical tests on 40 AIDS patients in the United States. When the patients took 0.02 ounces of AK602 twice a day for 10 days, the number of HIV viruses dropped to an average of 1 percent. |
whoa....good news i must say...
what do u all think?? |
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| DJ_Lord |
| Genious! Hope it works out well! :) |
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| metalgearsolid |
| Sounds great and all but I bet you HiV will still come out as the victor. We are killing the weak ones leaving the strong out and they will last and reproduce and there you go. You will be back where you started. |
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| Floorfiller |
| unprotected sex here i come :gsmile: |
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| jonze234 |
| i read about this earlier today. it looks like good news. the only problem is if the virus is still present wont it just multiply? |
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| jonze234 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
unprotected sex here i come :gsmile: |
you're so lucky i gave you the week off because there have been many replies where i had to hit the back button rather than post. |
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| UWM |
This drug, in conjunction with the drugs they're doing work on to prevent the reverse transcription of the retroviral cells could basically make HIV as dangerous as the common cold.
The only problem is you'd be spending thousands of dollars a year on your meds. |
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| trance4life627 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
unprotected sex here i come :gsmile: |
:haha: |
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| DJ-Kreing^^ |
HIV is just another way for mother nature to tell us humans to stop ing reproducing so rapidly...if not HIV some new virus or disease will show up to terrorize the human species once again…
Don’t you get it?? We are doomed!! we are all gonna die!!! |
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| ahway26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
This drug, in conjunction with the drugs they're doing work on to prevent the reverse transcription of the retroviral cells could basically make HIV as dangerous as the common cold.
The only problem is you'd be spending thousands of dollars a year on your meds. |
so do you want to live or pay up?^^ |
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| Akridrot |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
July 6th? Whats the catch, how come this isn't plastered over all the front pages? |
I was wondering about that too. There's alot of pages with this story, but I didn't hear about it until now.. |
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