SRL Archive - Discussions & Debates

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Now what has your university done? ;)

My university sucks compared to yours.
I might actually do my masters and/or PhD at western though. Unsure though

There's already a retro virus cure to aids.

From: IceFire908
There's already a retro virus cure to aids.

Cure [as in solved, destroys HIV and patient can live a normal life] or treatment?

From: cstrike
Cure [as in solved, destroys HIV and patient can live a normal life] or treatment?

http://www.medcarehealth.com/aids-hiv/2009/02/highly-active-anti-retroviral-therapy-haart-for-curing-hiv-aids-is-still-under-experimentation/

From: IceFire908
http://www.medcarehealth.com/aids-hiv/2009/02/highly-active-anti-retroviral-therapy-haart-for-curing-hiv-aids-is-still-under-experimentation/

It sounds more like treatment, as it seems to inhibit reverse transcriptase instead of rendering the virus useless.

I've also heard that the medication cocktail has other side effects that can suck as well, such as nausea.



Though if it does work, that's a great step in the right direction though.

My university gives hope.

Hope > Cure

From: Deathscytex
My university gives hope.

Hope > Cure

lolwut?

I go to a University in South Texas.

Run and owned by Mexicans.

We specialize in Flour Tortillas to provide excellent Medical problems to doctors down here, granting excellent pay for them.

We also fall in 3-5million of people down here with HIV/Aids, so more than likely South Texas will get the bigger demand than Africa :P

From: Squancy
I go to a University in South Texas.

Run and owned by Mexicans.

We specialize in Flour Tortillas to provide excellent Medical problems to doctors down here, granting excellent pay for them.

We also fall in 3-5million of people down here with HIV/Aids, so more than likely South Texas will get the bigger demand than Africa :P

I just do not know what to say to this.. :O

Lmao, I dont really think we have 3-5 million people with aidz lol.

But my HighSchool had the most pregnant girls than any school in texas.

I was shocked by that, as i thought maybe Houston or Dallas would have topped us off.

^ good place to test birth control??

… back on topic…

That is coolieo. I had a professor talk about these sort of things and say that he would rather see money put into finding cures to things that aren't spread by human decision. Cancer and such…

My uni has achieved a 13-0 American football season 3 years ago :). We also managed to have 40,000 confidential student documents (that included students social security numbers)leak.

Very impressive :)
Our department of biochemistry (uni of Turku, Finland) is one of the leading research centers in the world in biotechnology. Currently discovering a treatment to atopic (??) skin condition etc., but no deadly viruses have been cured yet :p

My university's engineering maths and computer science faculty is going broke and firing 25% of the lecturers based on a ranking that involves 50% research, 25% teaching quantity, 25% university involvement and 0% teaching ability/quality.

From: ZephyrsFury
My university's engineering maths and computer science faculty is going broke and firing 25% of the lecturers based on a ranking that involves 50% research, 25% teaching quantity, 25% university involvement and 0% teaching ability/quality.

AKA you are stuck with crappy lecturers?

From: Nava2

Now what has your university done? ;)

Developed/discovered: penicillin, holography, fibre optics, Maglev railways.

"Recent breakthroughs include the demonstration of the world's first 'invisibility cloak' by Sir John Pendry and partners at Duke University, and the development of anti-TNF drugs by Professors Ravinder Maini and Marc Feldmann, which have changed the lives of thousands of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers worldwide."

Alumni also include Brian May the guitarist and song writer for the band Queen.


Obviously I accept that universities shouldn't compete with each other. Forward together in the pursuit of knowledge ect ect




I'll get my coat.

My University produced Dijkstra. Boom.

IOW, you wouldn't have had semaphores, A*/Dijkstra Path Finding, etc etc etc without him.

From: Wizzup?
My University produced Dijkstra. Boom.

IOW, you wouldn't have had semaphores, A*/Dijkstra Path Finding, etc etc etc without him.

^ You win. :p

MY school produced cool hijackings.. what now… Also, paint.net invented and developed here as a free photo editing program.

Ready for this? My high school produced the Blues Travelers and the lead singer for the Spin Doctors. The university in my town has an incredible physics department, and they contributed heavily to the Hadron Collider project.
We've also got experts in Esperanto, and a Nobel Prize of Literature winner

From: Nava2
AKA you are stuck with crappy lecturers?

Its a difficult thought, how can lecturers be even worse than the ones we have now? :(

My university has invented nothing as I don't go to one (yet)! :o

iots finally maybe being cured! lmao!

about time :P its been what, almost 80 years?

From: g0tp0t
iots finally maybe being cured! lmao!

about time :P its been what, almost 80 years?

Wish the same was for cancer. I think we've known about it 100+ years (and possibly even 1000+ since IIRC people used to harvest plants with cancerous material for their benefit)

From: g0tp0t
iots finally maybe being cured! lmao!

about time :P its been what, almost 80 years?

HIV was discovered in 1983 or something so its been less than 30 years.

Er wrong,

HIV is known to be at least 32,000 Years old, as monkeys had had it back then too.

But it first started to make the news in 1959.

Source: http://www.avert.org/origin-aids-hiv.htm

Squancy, you read that wrong. ;)

"However, the most interesting lentivirus in terms of the investigation into the origins of HIV is the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) that affects monkeys, which is believed to be at least 32,000 years old."

that says that SIV is at least 32,000 years old, not HIV. It says HIV started much sooner today than that.

"However, a study in 2008 dated the origin of HIV to between 1884 and 1924, much earlier than previous estimates."

HIV is quite a new virus. It only made it's jump from monkeys to humans (this is what I've seen in some things on pbs/obp/history/discovery about this) in some place in Africa due to eating a monkey that had SIV, leading the virus to adapt to work off humans eventually, and then that tribe had it, and someone somewhere along the lines passed it on to someone who went into a more active part of Africa, and then tons of people there got it, etc. etc.

SIV, HIV its all the same, came from the same orgin

None the less its out there, noone can really give a exact number as keeping track of this was nearly impossible back then.

For all we know, dinosaurs could have had it.

SIV and HIV are not the same thing.. For one, humans don't get SIV. Pretty important difference..

Its the same.

This isn't even an argument. SIV and HIV are two different viruses.

They both do the same thing, Just SIV doesn't affect non-humans, as HIV does.

One can enter.

One cant.

They both result in the same body damage.

From: Squancy
They both do the same thing, Just SIV doesn't affect non-humans, as HIV does.

One can enter.

One cant.

They both result in the same body damage.

They're still different viruses. Either way HIV was only diagnosed as a separate virus in 1981 so scientists have only had 40 years to research and develop a cure.

From: Squancy
Its the same.

Unlike HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in humans, SIV infections in their natural hosts appear in many cases to be non-pathogenic

…The closely related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)…

They're different viruses. Says a biochemist.
It's called evolution.

different strains of the same virus? or are they really that different. i thought the viruses themselves were very similar in code. just a few mutations allowed it to infect humans

From: g0tp0t
different strains of the same virus? or are they really that different. i thought the viruses themselves were very similar in code. just a few mutations allowed it to infect humans

Viruses are sneaky ones… they need to be able to penetrate the cell by finding the proper weak point, then they have to inject it. Upon injecting their data, it needs to survive a whole host of thigns like miRNA's and the RISC complex (which are mainly antisense coding designed to cut up viral code or bind to it like glue, making it useless), and upon getting by all that, it needs to hijack host machinery that can replicate it's own strand and then make copies.

Plus the virus has to be able to evade an interferon gamma response (which is a response infected cells send out warning other cells to increase antiviral protection).

My knowledge may be a bit blurry, haven't done immunology in a while. They have to mutate a bit to jump from species to species.
Unfortunately, IIRC a bursting viral cell can release as many as 100,000 viruses, which means *so many* get produced and released that it's inevitable.

IDK if this has been brought up yet but, hasn't there been a vaccine for AIDS, but only for the females for sometime now?

Uhh.. wat? Why would it EVER be for females only? How does that even make sense?

And SIV and HIV actually act differently, as well. For one, SIV doesn't usually lead to SAIDS (simian AIDS), and when it does, it is different. But this is offtopic.

My lovely girlfriend just brought this up, uhh.. JP, do you mean HPV? If so, it's for females and males, it's just that it affects females much more than males (it's not a real risk to males due to the way of infection or something).

(And HPV and HIV are entirely different. :p)