Alligators immune system

They're immune system can fight it off but still contain it...

oh god wrong they....

i wish i was clever too

I was going to post that.... Or something like it...

I lol'd cuz of dingus

The question is HOW they do it, and can we do it too, without turning into goddamn alligators.

What?

what about chimps?

They get SIV, which is what HIV mutated from.

thank you, that was a legit question about why chimps and such have it start with

it's also a possibility (slightly less probably, but still quite possible) that alligator white blood cells or DNA were studied, and it was simply noticed that they did not have the gene that makes us vulnerable to HIV.

BE GONE AND TAKE THY WRETCHED "LOGIC" WITH YOU!

You dunce. It just says their immune system can fight it off.
You know Armadillos? They can carry and transmit HIV to people. Their immune system doesn't fight it off, but they aren't affected either.

I love you.

How would you even find this out?

There is one case that a man was cured of HIV after he received a bone marrow transplant from someone who was immune to it.

We must begin the harvesting

There is a a joke about terrorists in here somewhere..

It's not that easy. DNA sequencing isn't as easy as "pull from here, place here". And even if it were, the structure between our species is too completely different for it to work. It's be like completing a jigsaw puzzle with a 10-piece order of McNuggets.
What we can do, however, is look at how the Alligator's immune system works to eliminate the virus, and attempt to make a synthetic version for human's. However, once again, it's not as easy as pick-and-place. Most the time when you look at something unique to a species, it's hard, if not impossible, to make that work in another species. Because of how an alligator's immune system works, it can fight off HIV. But it's a different immune system as ours, and the way it fights certain diseases could be drastically different than the human method.

'Life finds a way...' think about it.

is that some kind of besteality joke :/ ?

It's a jurassic park line. because they took dna from amber and created dinosaurs.

who didn't?

lets hope their immune system cant fight borg nanoprobes as well

That would be awesome, think of the advances we would make just trying to get around that to harness their immunity to HIV.

if they can stop nanoprobs fuck the hiv stuff we would be able to harness that ability to save the federation nay the entire galaxy from the borg

We could become greater than cybermen...nah, better then the daleks

I take it you're talking about star trek and I don't watch much that.

the startreks are what i have been netflixing lately but if you wanna talk doctor who i can get all sorts of wibbly wobbly timey wimy up in here

HAHA I have been on netflix revisiting Doctor Who. I just stopped before Season 3 Ep 11: Blink....I prefer to be able to sleep tonight. :D

No fuck you. lol

on a side note i wish they would have kept Martha Jones for longer she was by far the best companion

Yes. I don't remember when she leaves and that dumb ass whats her face with the fucked teeth and thick accent comes in but god do I hate her so much and I dread the Ep. when it happens.

Donna! i hated her so much! im glad that if the doctor so much as speaks to her again she will die