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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/08/study-bee-venom-kills-hiv

Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which could lead to an anti-HIV vaginal gel and other treatments.

Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that melittin, a toxin found in bee venom, physically destroys the HIV virus, a breakthrough that could potentially lead to drugs that are immune to HIV resistance. The study was published Thursday in the journal Antiviral Therapy.

"Our hope is that in places where HIV is running rampant, people could use this as a preventative measure to stop the initial infection," Joshua Hood, one of the authors of the study, said in a statement.

The researchers attached melittin to nanoparticles that are physically smaller than HIV, which is smaller than body cells. The toxin rips holes in the virus' outer layer, destroying it, but the particles aren't large enough to damage body cells.


Yay science!


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Too bad bee populations are rapidly declining.
   
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 azazel the cat wrote:
Too bad bee populations are rapidly declining.

They are?

We have a gak ton of them here in St. Louis.

However, we can fabricate bee venoms.

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 whembly wrote:
 azazel the cat wrote:
Too bad bee populations are rapidly declining.

They are?


Yes, to some extent.

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 Ouze wrote:
 whembly wrote:
 azazel the cat wrote:
Too bad bee populations are rapidly declining.

They are?


Yes, to some extent.

Even then, I didn't think they were on the verge of extinction.

Now that I think about it... doesn't surprise me. I knew a neighbor that had a honey bee "infestation" in their broken down van. Some dude from Tennessee PAID the neighbors for the bees, and even came up and extracted the Queen.

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So where do Africanized bees fit into this AIDS mess?
   
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Reading this story, no where. It'll probably take a lot more venom then a single sting imparts to kill the disease.

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I'm still thinking we let everyone get stung by bees.

1. Get AIDS
2. Get Stung by African bees to fill your system with anti-AIDS
3. ??????
4. No AIDS!

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Well it would thin out some of the population...

   
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 djones520 wrote:
Reading this story, no where. It'll probably take a lot more venom then a single sting imparts to kill the disease.


Yeah, you'd need a few stings, as below:

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Of course. The cure is in bees. Hope I don't ever get HIV, cuz guess what creature scares the hell outta me...

I ain't getting stung for the cure!!!

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 azazel the cat wrote:
Too bad bee populations are rapidly declining.


This is one of those situations where you shake your fist and scream at the sky "curse you nature!" for presenting a horrible disease and ten dangling the rapidly disappearing maybe cure in front of us XD

   
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Damn, Bee's are so scary, even aids fear them.

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And what about people that are allergic to bees?

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 juraigamer wrote:
And what about people that are allergic to bees?


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hotsauceman1 wrote:Damn, Bee's are so scary, even aids fear them.

There is nothing scary about bumblebees.
   
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There's nothing inherently scary about heights (if you're on secure footing) or most spiders or snakes, either.

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I'm not sticking it in a beehive!
   
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 azazel the cat wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:Damn, Bee's are so scary, even aids fear them.

There is nothing scary about bumblebees.


Says you.

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I'm not sticking it in a beehive!

Where`s your adventurous spirit?

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bees making honey and babies what are you going to do next?

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Well, that certainly is the Bee's Knees

/rimshot

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 mega_bassist wrote:
Well, that certainly is the Bee's Knees

/rimshot

OT - Wash U is one of the few fantastic things about St. Louis. Glad they discovered this!

That's not true. We also have record setting STD rates. Which makes the fact that Wash U discovered this somewhat more understandable...
   
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 Laughing Man wrote:
 mega_bassist wrote:
Well, that certainly is the Bee's Knees

/rimshot

OT - Wash U is one of the few fantastic things about St. Louis. Glad they discovered this!

That's not true. We also have record setting STD rates. Which makes the fact that Wash U discovered this somewhat more understandable...

Eh, guess I was being a little more positive.

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Better sort out the problem of Bees dying out at a concerning rate then...


   
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 juraigamer wrote:
And what about people that are allergic to bees?


   
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 Laughing Man wrote:
 mega_bassist wrote:
Well, that certainly is the Bee's Knees

/rimshot

OT - Wash U is one of the few fantastic things about St. Louis. Glad they discovered this!

That's not true. We also have record setting STD rates. Which makes the fact that Wash U discovered this somewhat more understandable...

Er...wat? Really? o.O I thought all that happened over the east side! (That's in Illinois for those who don't know). Just kidding...

Wash U. really is a great school... they even have an excellent relationship with Barnes-Jewish Hospital, one of the premier hospital systems in the US.

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 Mannahnin wrote:
There's nothing inherently scary about heights (if you're on secure footing) or most spiders or snakes, either.


I used to be afraid of spiders. Then I woke up with a scorpion sleeping next to my face.

But yea that preventative would be the bee's knees!

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 whembly wrote:
(That's in Illinois for those who don't know). Just kidding...

Low blow, good sir. You can't lump us all in with Granite City and East Saint Louis

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