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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on August 20, 2011, 08:05:07 AM
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Scientists at MIT are developing a new drug that may fight viruses as effectively as antibiotics like penicillin dispatch bacteria. The broad-spectrum treatment is designed to trigger cell suicide in cells that have been invaded by a virus, thereby halting infection, while leaving healthy cells alone.
DRACO- Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) Activated Caspase Oligomeriser, homes in on cells infected with viruses of all types and makes them self-destruct. In lab tests using animal and human cells, the new therapy was effective against 15 viruses, including the common cold, H1N1 influenza, dengue fever, a polio virus, a stomach virus and several types of hemorrhagic fever. "In theory, it should work against all viruses," said Todd Rider, a senior staff scientist in Lincoln Laboratory's Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group at MIT, who invented the new technology.
The idea of a one-size-fits-all approach to creating antiviral drugs has the potential for huge implications. Until now, drugmakers have had to design a new drug to fight each individual virus strain, and because viruses like to be sneaky and mutate often, it's been an ongoing battle to keep up with them.
"We have created DRACOs and shown that they are nontoxic in 11 mammalian cell types and effective against 15 different viruses, including dengue flavivirus, Amapari and Tacaribe arenaviruses, Guama bunyavirus, and H1N1 influenza," wrote the team from MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in their research published in the journal PLoS One. "We have also demonstrated that DRACOs can rescue mice challenged with H1N1 influenza."
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022572 (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022572)
Actually causes the virus to commit suicide. I like that for some reason.
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I.Am.legend.
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(http://www.seriousland.com/I%20am%20Legend%205.jpg)
ya beat me to it ya bastage :)
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I.Am.legend.
and what was our hero driving in the beginning of said movie?
you got it. a shelby gt500 baby!!!!! the man knew what to have if he wanted something fast. :devil
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and what was our hero driving in the beginning of said movie?
you got it. a shelby gt500 baby!!!!! the man knew what to have if he wanted something fast. :devil
didn't top gear call it the shelby almost gt500 :D
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we can keep you young forever, some side effects may occur :noid.
semp
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didn't top gear call it the shelby almost gt500 :D
yep, they did. they;ve no clue how the shelbys were named.
if i recall from reading....and i may still have the magazine in the rafters of my garage......the gt350 was for gt=grand touring, and the 350 was the distance from the hangar in which the 65's were built, to the office, or something like that. i don't know how the gt500 got its name, but i don't think it had to do with a horsepower rating.
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I read were the first person to live too 150 is already born.
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The first person to see 140 years has been born.
I think once mankind really starts to dig deep and tinker too far with what Mother Nature is supposed to take care of on her own is when things are really going to start getting FUBAR'd.
Speaking of "I Am Legend", has anyone seen/read how it should have ended. Ya know, how it really ended in the book and how they originally filmed it???
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yes to both
the book sucked and I preferred the alternate ending of the movie