Saturday, February 27, 2010

Interesting new article. A Must Read.

Page 26, TIME magazine, 22nd February 2010 Edition
The Man who could beat AIDS. Sounds impossible, eh? For a quarter of a century, many doctors have been trying to come out with a cure for AIDS, but so far not so good. Only recently did they discover that vaccine will be the only way to stop AIDS. But towards Dr David Ho, he feels different about the vaccine. He thinks that injecting snippets into a patients body and let the immune system do the rest of the work by churning out the antibodies may not be the best way to fight HIV at all. He instead feels that he should create those antibodies for the immune system itself so that the immune system does not need to prepare the antibodies. But he does not know the key ingredient to creating the vaccine. I quote here:'to this day, they do not know exactly what cells or immune responses could protect the body from HIV infection. Could be antibody that binds and neutralizes do the trick?'(pg27) With this, they cannot create their vaccine or cure for AIDS.
A bit of background info on Dr David Ho:
Name: David Da-i Ho
Born: November 3, 1952 (1952-11-03) (age 57)
Taichung, Taiwan
Residence: Chappaqua, New York
Nationality: United States
Other names: David Da-i Ho, 何大一
Occupation: AIDS Researcher
So read it! That article really is a good one on a man's journey through fighting a deadly disease.
Article Review brought to you by: Koh Jian Way
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yeahs, so anyways, i was like, nothing to do, waiting for the IT home learning notes to come before i can start doing my IT home learning homework. lets see about how fast i can do it. maybe 1~2hours can finish my homework before being able to relax. LOL. some interesting pictures that enabled me to understand how antibodies work easier than reading the whole chunk of words. so yeah.
maybe should go han long house on monday. maybe around 3plus liddat. but see how 1st. cannot go jared house. LOL cos todae got tuition. last tuition day :D
Malcolm sounded 70% of my hunter's horn, then i got a really unlucky streak, so i started spamming the horn, not allowing him to sound for me. SHEESH. :D
so sign off liao. maybe tomorrow or later in the day if i find a nice article then post the review bar. see yas~
signing off~

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