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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

UT Southwestern in Dallas prevents HIV transmission in humanized mice

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Researchers at UT Southwestern have prevented the vaginal spread of HIV in humanized mice using two drugs that are used to treat HIV. Studies to see if a similar approach is effective in humans should be completed in 2009. If you're good with medical jargon, check out the original findings here.

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Pavel Lishin

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You know, we're entering a really exciting time in mouse-and-rat research. They've been able to reverse liver damage in rats, restart dead rat hearts, and now they prevent the spread of HIV in mice? We are truly living in the future, now.

I just hope that soon they'll actually be able to, uh, learn how to do all this for humans. I'm staying positive, though, and plan to continue to recklessly drink, use drugs and have casual, unprotected sex with third world prostitutes.

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Scott Doyle

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The experiment involved injecting five mice for seven days with two drugs that are commonly used to treat AIDS patients, tenofovir and emtricitabine. On the third day, the mice were inoculated vaginally with HIV, to mimic how most women and girls become infected.

When are they going to genetically engineer gay mice to experiment on, hmmm?

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DC

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Probably never since one could use a pipette to inoculate the rat just like in this study. Pick the orifice / insert.

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Pavel Lishin

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"When are they going to genetically engineer gay mice to experiment on, hmmm?"

That's just ridiculous. Clearly being gay is a choice, and since mice aren't tainted with the Original Sin, they will never

okay, I can't keep typing without cracking up and then everyone in the office will know I'm not really working right now.

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Scott Doyle

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DC, it's obviously not the same if the mice aren't gay. Duh.

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