Observing and establishing a pattern is the first step to understanding the disease’s behavior and potentially a solution. This helps to prove that something in humans can fend of the virus. This will support the research to find a cure.

Hi all, it is very interesting that
my ancestors did all this, considering
the way our world has developed. Anyway,
I suppose that they found this all out
from DNA , which is very interesting
to read about but somehow in this
complicated world in which we live it
does not seem very relevant unless
they can discover a cure for this
horrible desease. Let’s all hope
that those brilliant, wonderful
scientists who we all take for granted
too often do find a cure some day
for AIDs, cancer etc. Hope you all
stay healthy!

There’s already a new drug recently out on the market (just this year) based off the discovery only a few years ago that those with a CCR5-Delta32 mutation have partial to full resistance to most strains of HIV. As knowledge about the virus, virology in general, and genetics have increased, the turnaround from experimental research to treatment has made a huge jump. All of this is important.

This is definitely something for everyone to keep in mind as another election approaches - separate from foreign affairs, war, and civil rights issues, one party has really striven to be the anti-science party. We need government funding for this research to continue!

Right on! Matthew.

its not that simple though. biological systems rely on natural selection, and trade offs. a defective chemokine receptor such as ccr5 may render the organism more vulnerable to other immune pathologies.

Doe this explain why Africa and Asia are now devastataed by the disease?? What a bunch of wasted money.

LOrion, my question to you is, how can money spent to give us more information about a disease and the ramifications of this gene on a possible cure be considered to be a waste? Did it ever occur to you that another group of scientist may take this work and add to it or put it with their hypothesis and miracle of miracles come up with a cure or vaccine? The more we learn the more likely that we shall eventually stumble upon that which we seek.

Very interesting. Hopefully this new info will allow scientists to get a little closer to a cure or perhaps an immunization against HIV.
And HIV is still a BIG problem…

Maybe we should be focusing on the scientists who created this awful disease, or do we still believe it came from a monkey…

I do believe it doesnt’ matter where it came from, and it time to stop pointing fingers, a work with the disease itself, learn from the past, but go forward, quickly.

Okay, some quick thoughts on some of the comments. First, Africa and Asia are hit hard by AIDS because of the lack of sexual education and understanding of the disease and niglect to the victims and by the family in the area. Not genetics, although digging into the genetics of a disease is crucial because if you can find people with natural defenses and immunities it makes it that much closer to synthesizing them in a lab. Secondly I don’t think enough has been done as far as research and accountability as to the origins of the virus. I watched a very good documentary a while back that explained that the virus was unintentionally created by a group of careless and unethical scientists experimenting on apes to produce a poleo vaccine. Instead of taking responsibility and sharing the details of their failed research with those who could help they have cowardly fled into hiding and the few of them still living refuse to talk about it, while millions of people around the world are left struggling to fight it off.

A quick addition, for those interested I located the name of the documentary: The Origin of AIDS, and you can find clips and/or most of it on youtube.

everybody knows the government came up with the HIV/AIDS virus

To Bklyn:

It’s not quite that simple. I did some research on the ‘net of my own, and came up with a cadre of American scientists that were working for the Apartheid government of South Africa. This information can be gleaned from the reparation trials held after the demise of Apartheid.
These scientists worked on some really far-out projects, including genetic research to alter the pigmentation of the skin. That’s just an example of how wild these researchers got.
Of course, there is no direct evidence anywhere that one of those experimental research programs resulted in the AIDS virus, but some of the programs came awfully close.
The research was transported by a few of the scientists involved to one of the Scandinavian countries…I forget which…and then all of those involved I could research simply disappear from any records on the ‘net.
There was one scientist that was prevalent in the whole mess and his was the longest trail one can follow, but he just disappears after some connection to a medical corporation based out of Chicago.
It’s all pretty interesting and anyone interested could start out at the reparation trials for Apartheid. I’m not a great ‘net researcher anyway, so maybe someone else better at it could find out more.

This in no way explains the prevelance of Africans and Indians with the disease. Sounds far reaching to me.

To Mark S:
Because they are having lots of unprotected sex, and the governments are not educating the people on how to protect themselves, end of story.

About the Article:
This article is about the research done to find out why some people are resistant to the virus. Research is about finding connections and working those out to make something useful, the more we know the better we can plan our attack.

this is very interesting,seein is this seems to help support the idea that the church and governments liked to play god’, with their’ past and present ideoligies and indoctrination of diseases coming from ‘god and that they are punishment for mens’ wickedness…hmmm…