Eos, look carefully at what you put in your hover spoiler. You just stabbed your own foot. And please... correct that spelling mistake in this thread's title. [Thanks]
HIV resistance to drugs work by overcoming the selectivity of the drugs for their targets. You cannot run from natural selection. Somewhere, somehow, something will get through its limitations. That was why this was one of the things I'm expecting them to work on. That's also why I suggested using lentiviruses.
That cancer cure thing is a different ball game. There are so many factors that will promote neoplasias. Go read The Hallmarks of Cancer - The Next Generation.
If pharmas won't fund it, NIH will... if they write a sufficiently convincing proposal and "make enough noise".
We don't know if this works on HIV or not. My guess is: not likely, and/or it takes a significantly long time to clear the viral load, hence requiring a combinatorial treatment. It will be many years before we know some of the answers to the questions we asked (or at least, the queries I dumped a page back).
Hadriel
HIV resistance to drugs work by overcoming the selectivity of the drugs for their targets. You cannot run from natural selection. Somewhere, somehow, something will get through its limitations. That was why this was one of the things I'm expecting them to work on. That's also why I suggested using lentiviruses.
That cancer cure thing is a different ball game. There are so many factors that will promote neoplasias. Go read The Hallmarks of Cancer - The Next Generation.
If pharmas won't fund it, NIH will... if they write a sufficiently convincing proposal and "make enough noise".
We don't know if this works on HIV or not. My guess is: not likely, and/or it takes a significantly long time to clear the viral load, hence requiring a combinatorial treatment. It will be many years before we know some of the answers to the questions we asked (or at least, the queries I dumped a page back).
Hadriel