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Breakthrough in fight against fatal Ebola as new drug saves 100% of monkeys tested! (Praise God!)
Daily Mail ^
| 10:57 PM on 29th May 2010
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 05/29/2010 4:21:54 PM PDT by Niuhuru
A gene silencing approach can save monkeys from high doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola virus in what researchers call the most viable route yet to treating the deadly and frightening infection.
They used small interfering RNAs or siRNAs, a new technology being developed by a number of companies, to hold the virus at bay for a week until the immune system could take over. Tests in four rhesus monkeys showed that seven daily injections cured 100 per cent of them.
U.S. government researchers and a small Canadian biotech company, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, worked together to develop the new approach, described in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical; Testing
KEYWORDS: canada; canadian; disease; ebola; gene; genes; genesilencing; genetherapy; lethal; miracle; monkeys; pharmaceuticals; researchers; science; scientist; scientists; unitedstates; us
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Thank God! I hope this tests successfully on humans when there is another outbreak.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:21:55 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
To: Niuhuru
This is good news. Ebola scares the hell out of me.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:23:53 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(SB. 1070 - Arizona's way of finding out whose side Barry Zero is really on.)
To: Niuhuru
wow! i’m not sure the last time i heard of an actual 100% cure being found for anything.
that’s pretty sweet!
way to go US & Canadian researchers & scientists! grats!!
\o/
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:24:18 PM PDT
by
sten
To: sten
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:26:16 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Niuhuru
That's incredible. With the right sequencing they just broke the deadliness of hemorrhagic fever
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:27:38 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Something is seriously wrong when the .gov plans to treat citizens worse than they treat terrorists)
To: Niuhuru
Does it work for all strains so far known?
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:30:39 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: Centurion2000
I see a couple of Nobel prizewinners in this article I daresay.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:30:43 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: GeronL
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:30:56 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Niuhuru
How long before Obama appears on TV to take credit for it?
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:31:39 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: Niuhuru
It’s a long way from 4 test monkeys to humans, but this does sound promising.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:32:31 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Don't mess with Aunt Karen when she's been drinking)
To: Hoodat
He’s bound to get the Nobel Prize in Medicine for inventing it.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:33:21 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Don't mess with Aunt Karen when she's been drinking)
To: Niuhuru
This is WONDERFUL news. What a horrible condition Ebola is.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:33:38 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Niuhuru
INDEED.
PRAISE GOD.
I wonder which big hole the global oligarchy PTB will flush this down.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:34:05 PM PDT
by
Quix
(THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: Niuhuru
They are usually not real thrilled at successful efforts to sabotage their engineered forced population reduction schemes.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:34:44 PM PDT
by
Quix
(THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: Hoodat
How long before Obama appears on TV...and says it’s not “cost effective”
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:37:49 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
To: Niuhuru
U.S. government researchers and a small Canadian biotech company, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, worked together... Already there are no companies to list in the US, only government?
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:38:00 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Niuhuru
Isn't this how the zombie virus from the movies started?
In six months we'll all be dead or shooting zombies for a living.
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:39:35 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: Rome2000
Ah! So that’s how we’ll get rid of the Democrats, they’ll be eaten by zombies while the Republicans defend themselves with guns!
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posted on
05/29/2010 4:55:04 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Niuhuru
Now we need something to put an end to the “Obama Virus”.
It only afflicts gubbmint bureaucrats and causes them to hemorrhage an endless stream of taxpayer’s earnings out the wazoo!
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posted on
05/29/2010 5:15:41 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% white, 50% black, 100% red)
To: Hoodat
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posted on
05/29/2010 5:30:20 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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