Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains
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Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains
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#3What happens if we manage to kill 91% of the HIV strains? Won't the remaining 9% of the strains continue to spread and mutate? Then we're back to square one.
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#4It's really a testament to nature and Darwin's theories that after all the time, effort and money we've been spending on AIDS research, the most successful antibody so far was not created by man, but by his DNA.
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#5This is fantastic, but I can only imagine that 91% will become 9.1% within a decade, as the unaffected strains become dominant (just like superbugs).
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#6This is fantastic, but I can only imagine that 91% will become 9.1% within a decade, as the unaffected strains become dominant (just like superbugs).
But only 10% of the current number of people infected will be infected by that point.
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#7What happens if we manage to kill 91% of the HIV strains? Won't the remaining 9% of the strains continue to spread and mutate? Then we're back to square one.
Less people will be infected...
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#8What happens if we manage to kill 91% of the HIV strains? Won't the remaining 9% of the strains continue to spread and mutate? Then we're back to square one.
Likewise, 91% of the strains is not necessarily the same as 91% of the people currently living with HIV. Can anyone provide details on what, exactly, this finding does? Do we need to kill 100% of the HIV strains to have a cure? Is there one strain that is the "dangerous" one, and it isn't covered in the 91% number? Will the virus simply mutate new strains?
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#9What happens if we manage to kill 91% of the HIV strains? Won't the remaining 9% of the strains continue to spread and mutate? Then we're back to square one.
There's rarely an antibody that kills every possible strain of a disease, illustrated by the fact that there is not an antibody that kills every disease. 91% of HIV strains means we are 91% of the way to complete eradication.
Plus, one of the big problems thus far have been we had NO IDEA how to attack the HIV bodies. Perhaps developing an understanding of this antibody will allow us to gain new understanding, and perhaps in good 'ol engineering tradition we will be able to change this, that, recompile, and cover a few more %. I know it's not that easy, but if you've ever developed code or hardware, having pre-existing, working models makes everything miles and miles easier.
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#10What happens if we manage to kill 91% of the HIV strains? Won't the remaining 9% of the strains continue to spread and mutate? Then we're back to square one.
It can, however, make the population of people who have HIV much smaller and slow the spread of it down dramatically.