Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV

[JazzRemington]

stemceller writes to tell us that a team of researchers at the University of Alberta claims to have discovered a gene capable of blocking HIV (http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=9131) thereby preventing the onset of full blown AIDS. "Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, says his team has identified a gene called TRIM22 that can block HIV infection in a cell culture by preventing the assembly of the virus. 'When we put this gene in cells, it prevents the assembly of the HIV virus," said Barr, a postdoctoral fellow. "This means the virus cannot get out of the cells to infect other cells, thereby blocking the spread of the virus.'"

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/01/1755228

[Lector Malibu]

The Canadians also have a cure for cancer but surprise The United States won't recognize it

[Janus]

Researchers have already made a lot of headway into synthesizing drugs which inhibit HIV entry based on analysis of naturally immune humans with mutated CCR5 protein receptors.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/01/66198
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5

[Module]

The Canadians also have a cure for cancer but surprise The United States won't recognize it
Can you please tell me where you learnt that?

[Apollodorus]

^ I concur. Please source that, it intrigues me.

[RedAnarchist]

The Canadians also have a cure for cancer but surprise The United States won't recognize it

If the Canadians have a cure why does it matter if the USA doesn't recognise it?

[shorelinetrance]

Can you please tell me where you learnt that?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html

cure for cancer, of course it won't get put to use.

curing people is bad for profit, they make more off the sick.