Posts Tagged ‘Science’
Special Antibodies to Fend Off HIV
Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2010 05:34 Written by DarkKnightH20 Tuesday, 13 July 2010 10:00
Recently, NIH researchers discovered antibodies that are capable of neutralizing majority of the different types of HIV. It’s because of 3 different types of proteins (VRC01, VRC02, VRC03) that are created from B cells. These proteins generally begin show up only some time after the person has been infected with the virus, and therefore it is too late.
However, scientists may very well be able to utilize their power in an attempt to combat HIV through a vaccine. Through some tests, it was discovered that two of the antibodies (VRC01, VRC02) neutralized 91% of 190 different HIV isolates tested, which is pretty amazing if you ask me. Hopefully the elimination rate can be raised to 100%!
Source: Scientific American
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Possible Breakthrough in Fusion Power
Last Updated on Friday, 29 January 2010 05:58 Written by servbot_kill Friday, 29 January 2010 04:36
The Tokamak, cold fusion, sonoluminscence-induced fusion (aka “bubble fusion”). To date, these approaches to fusion haven’t yielded reactions that produced the requisite power surplus sought after in fusion research. The dream of fusion has been around for ages, and has gathered steam with every test, despite their failures.