Has BYU prof found AIDS cure? (SLT 3/17/06)

[Duncan Grant]

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And, unlike the expensive, drug cocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV.

Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system.

Under a study sponsored by Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Savage and his colleagues developed and synthesized the compound for Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine. In his Nashville, Tenn., laboratories, Derya Unutmaz, an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology, tested several CSAs for their ability to kill HIV.

While issuing a cautious caveat about his early results, Unutmaz acknowledged Monday that CSAs could be the breakthrough HIV/AIDS researchers have sought for so long.

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more at the Salt Lake Tribune

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Oh Dear.

The fundies are about to go "tilt", because their foil of divine retribution is in danger.

Poor Fred Phelps.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Yeah. They'll probably withhold this cure because they'll claim it

encourages homosexuality.

[xchrom]

2. lol -- now that would be ironic indeed.

[The Doctor.]

4. Watch the rabid 'Christian' right call for a ban...

"It will promote sexual behavior!"

Yeah buddy... like your wife isn't lying to you about having been a virgin. come to think of it... why does your cable need to be repaired so often?

[3waygeek]

8. They're already doing that

with the HPV vaccine, which will largely eliminate cervical cancer.

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. FDA/Falwell announcement can't be far behind

Pharmacists may refuse to dispense it in violation of their morals, which require punishing sinners. South Dakota legislature puts bill on fast track to outlaw bringing the substance into the state, even if it's inside a person's body because they went out of state to get it. Bush rules that no federal funds may be used for it except for supplies that existed prior to the 14 authorized stem cell lines. Robertson prays for scientist's death.

[madaboutharry]

6. Hey, Folks, I think we spend too much time together

Not only are we all starting to think alike, we are finishing each other's sentences!

My thoughts exactly, the fundies are going to rise up against this just like they have against the drug now believed to prevent cervical cancer.

[Moderator]

7. Article is dated March 1st

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3482712

[Duncan Grant]

9. Thanks.

I saw the 17th in the upper left corner and well naturally...