Mar 31 2009Ooh, Scienc-y: Video Of AIDS Spreading
No, it's not unprotected sex, it's a video showing how an infected AIDS cell spreads the disease to other, healthy cells. It's the first time the process has ever been caught on video, and scientists hope the information will help in the search for a cure.
The study was made possible after experts created a molecular clone of infectious HIV and inserted a protein into its genetic code which glows green when exposed to blue light.
They noted that when an infected cell came into contact with a healthy one, a bridge was created between them, called a virological synapse."We should be developing vaccines that help the immune system recognise proteins involved in virological synapse formation and antiviral drugs that target the factors required for synapse formation."
Hey, whatever helps find a cure. I can't wait till we wipe out all these STDs and then the only thing you have to get worry about is getting a girl pregnant. Which, at least for me, is no concern -- I have a laptop on my balls 10 hours a day!
Scientists film HIV spreading for first time [telegraph]
Thanks to Joemo, who once got a whole women's volleyball team pregnant just by attending a game.
Reader Comments
1. naas - March 31, 2009 11:05 AM
Nooooo... aids. Don't want to watch them spread
2. WHO DEY - March 31, 2009 11:11 AM
naas is FIRST !!!! I iz second
3. Dan - March 31, 2009 11:18 AM
Science ftw!
4. Darth - March 31, 2009 11:18 AM
Wow! I'm getting almost afraid to have unprotected sex!
5. dudemanbro - March 31, 2009 11:18 AM
Its kind of funny because the smaller cell is squirming away, "Nooooooooo....help me!"
6. Gando - March 31, 2009 11:21 AM
The other cells should never eat from the forbidden apple!
7. 24bit-whore - March 31, 2009 11:24 AM
I had a teachers aid once. The classroom was pretty big so the professor requested some help.
8. Timbo - March 31, 2009 11:29 AM
Stupid videos....
STupid computer that wont play videos
Stupid work that provides computers that wont play videos...
(To: Work
Incase you're watching I was kidding)
9. The Awful Truth - March 31, 2009 11:34 AM
There's never going to be a cure for AIDS or Cancer, get real. Laboratories make more money making shit for infected people, drugs for AIDS and Cancer patients is the largest income for them... wake up...
10. Ronjayl - March 31, 2009 11:36 AM
FAKE !!
I know most of the population is not aware of that, but yet, NO scientist on earth has being able to isolate the virus... so all pictures or videos you'll find representing the aids virus (suposingly HIV) is fake, and just stand as a representation.
true fact.
11. Timbo's watchdog - March 31, 2009 11:36 AM
That's right Timbo we are watching. Now get back to milking those cows or else we're taking away your rubber gloves and your lunch hour!
-Boss Hogg
12. naas - March 31, 2009 11:42 AM
@9 yeah you're right on that one. It'd be like finding a cure for the common cold, it'll also never happen.
Think of all the companies that'd go under selling remedies to help relieve the symptoms for something like this. It's too big of an industry & the system can't afford to liquidate all that because some cure was discovered
13. Timbo - March 31, 2009 11:50 AM
YESSIR SIRRYESSIR!!
14. Harrison - March 31, 2009 11:50 AM
I've got to be honest, that really REALLY creeped me out.
15. Angel Mass - March 31, 2009 11:52 AM
So that is how is going to happen
16. ok? - March 31, 2009 11:57 AM
First, I'm sure one day there will be a cure. People thought the exact same thing when polio was taking over the world.
Second, It looks as if that healthy cell is sucking the aids right out of the other cell!
17. Dinosaur Rex - March 31, 2009 12:00 PM
Why they're recreating the virus, that's stupid, they should make a perfect opposite, just for fun, cell fights FTW
18. Pew³ - March 31, 2009 12:18 PM
Jared has aides!
19. naas - March 31, 2009 12:28 PM
Gooood morning.... San Diego
20. gangbanger - March 31, 2009 12:36 PM
the day all std's are cured is the day i want the governments of the world to write a law making all women take their panties off and thus commence operation everyone have sex with everyone except ugly chicks unless you dress up like zelda, or a goron if you're a tubby.
21. JW - March 31, 2009 12:48 PM
the cure for AIDS is cash injected into your body.
Did you not learn anything from Magic Johnson on South Park?
22. Boost - March 31, 2009 12:54 PM
Hmm.
So as it looks, the infected cell is "hungry" and it "craves" other cells. Very agressive.
Why don't we try "feeding" the infected cell, so it doesn't "crave"?
How about it, any scientists reading this?
23. Daisy - March 31, 2009 2:10 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was trying to stop some nut who ordered a nukular strike on russia, and needed to make a call on a payphone. He had to bust open a soda machine to get the change to make the call rather than the coin holder of the payphone, probably because he wasn't thinking.
24. Daisy - March 31, 2009 3:36 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was trying to stop some nut who ordered a nukular strike on russia, and needed to make a call on a payphone. He had to bust open a soda machine to get the change to make the call rather than the coin holder of the payphone, probably because he wasn't thinking.
25. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 31, 2009 3:37 PM
Anal Inflicted Death Sentence
26. Bob - March 31, 2009 6:00 PM
Am I the only one that felt like I was watching rape on a molecular level?
27. ranter - March 31, 2009 6:08 PM
RAAAAAAAAAAAAR
this annoys me, people always say AIDS virus or w/e
HIV is the sexually transmitted virus that leads to the condition of AIDS (Auto Immune Deficiency syndrome) which means your helper T cell count has fallen below 200 per ml the typical person has 900-1100.
sorry for the rant but I still remember this from biology
28. The Dwarfer - March 31, 2009 6:52 PM
They MADE glow in the dark zombie AIDS!, Now all they have to do is make it airborne and their all done!
Science we're all about coulda not shoulda!
29. Delgo - March 31, 2009 8:24 PM
Just like a whore spreading it through sex. Deep.
30. Carmelita Spats - March 31, 2009 11:20 PM
Abstinence will keep it away, kiddies, so keep that ugly thing in your BVDs where it belongs and get the hell to church.
31. Beastman AIDS - April 1, 2009 12:36 AM
hmmmm - this all looks vaguely familiar....
32. KDIZZLL - April 1, 2009 5:00 AM
africans don't want to take vaccinations because they believe the aids virus is being administered in the vaccination by their gov..40% of africas population was wiped out by aids.
33. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 1, 2009 7:56 AM
@30
"get the hell to church"
You were trying to use a curse word and failed.
34. M - April 1, 2009 10:16 AM
@21
my thoughts exactly ;)