"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Mini-Antibiotics and AIDS: Researchers think they might have stumbled upon tiny proteins that slow the progress of HIV. The proteins, called defensins, have been around for a while:
Defensins are one of the weapons of "innate" immunity, the ancient biological armament -- shared by insects, reptiles, birds and mammals -- that attacks many forms of microbial invaders. Innate immunity doesn't entail the elaborate work of identifying and processing that is required to make microbe-specific weapons, such as antibodies and killer cells.
They’re apparently produced in greater quantity by some people than by others. Maybe this gene has something to do with it. posted by Sydney on
9/28/2002 07:42:00 AM
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