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Breaking: Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV

 
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Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving surrounding cells unharmed, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown. The finding is an important step toward developing a vaginal gel that may prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

“Our hope is that in places where HIV is running rampant, people could use this gel as a preventive measure to stop the initial infection,” says Joshua L. Hood, MD, PhD, a research instructor in medicine.

The study appears in the current issue of Antiviral Therapy.

Bee venom contains a potent toxin called melittin that can poke holes in the protective envelope that surrounds HIV, and other viruses. Large amounts of free melittin can cause a lot of damage. Indeed, in addition to anti-viral therapy, the paper’s senior author, Samuel A. Wickline, MD, the J. Russell Hornsby Professor of Biomedical Sciences, has shown melittin-loaded nanoparticles to be effective in killing tumor cells.

The new study shows that melittin loaded onto these nanoparticles does not harm normal cells. That’s because Hood added protective bumpers to the nanoparticle surface. When the nanoparticles come into contact with normal cells, which are much larger in size, the particles simply bounce off. HIV, on the other hand, is even smaller than the nanoparticle, so HIV fits between the bumpers and makes contact with the surface of the nanoparticle, where the bee toxin awaits.

“Melittin on the nanoparticles fuses with the viral envelope,” Hood says. “The melittin forms little pore-like attack complexes and ruptures the envelope, stripping it off the virus.”

According to Hood, an advantage of this approach is that the nanoparticle attacks an essential part of the virus’ structure. In contrast, most anti-HIV drugs inhibit the virus’s ability to replicate. But this anti-replication strategy does nothing to stop initial infection, and some strains of the virus have found ways around these drugs and reproduce anyway.


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Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly. But it becomes fatal, destructive of the intelligence, the dignity, the well-being of individuals and peoples whenever it is formed without regard to liberty, either by violent means or under the authority of any theological, metaphysical, political, or even economic idea. That patriotism which tends toward unity without regard to liberty is an evil patriotism, always disastrous to the popular and real interests of the country it claims to exalt and serve. Often, without wishing to be so, it is a friend of reaction – an enemy of the revolution, i.e., the emancipation of nations and men.
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Wow, Whoever gave the story a Pin, thank you.
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its a small world after all...
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So that's where all the bees went.

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So that's where all the bees went.

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^Exactly this!^ It was the first thought I had about it. So sad.
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huge news thanks OP
likely the last tiem we will hear about this. big pharm will bury it quickly
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huge news thanks OP
likely the last tiem we will hear about this. big pharm will bury it quickly
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Sad but true.
That said, The "cured" baby is still in the news, and the Leukemia cures are easy to find, so this may spark a turn in HIV research, quite handy that (Pending bees will survive) bee venom is fairly inexpensive to work with.

Although it likely won't it could mean a legitimate treatment for the people of Africa, but it likely won't.
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So that's where all the bees went.

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^Exactly this!^ It was the first thought I had about it. So sad.
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"Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving surrounding cells unharmed, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown. The finding is an important step toward developing a vaginal gel that may prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS."

Can you please pass the vaginal jelly hmm
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Silver nano particles already do that and we don't need to sacrifice the bees

Thread: >>>SILVER ION has the proven ability to cause any HUMAN CELL to revert back to a STEM CELL!!<<<

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magic medicine coming! Awesome.bump
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what happens when the nano particles start taking over the nervous system, fusing human dna with bee dna, thus it will create a hive like mind, so the illuminati can forever grasp control over it's the populace.
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Good news until people realize Monsanto is killing off the bee population....

Oh wait there then will be GMO bee venom - wonder how that will work out
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So that's where all the bees went.

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lol
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Bee venom is great for sex too apparently.


It makes sex great : Meet the woman who stings herself with bees over 100 times a week for pleasure..popcorn


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I would rather get stung 200 times as the venom would help a bunch of other things rather then having the nanos put into me for targeting one specific thing.
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Silver nano particles already do that and we don't need to sacrifice the bees

Thread: >>>SILVER ION has the proven ability to cause any HUMAN CELL to revert back to a STEM CELL!!<<<

popcorn
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EXACTLY^^^

colloidal silver has been healing people for generations and you can make it yourself for pennies! - which is why its never reported by the msm....

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We can start a factory and make misery, we can make the cure, we made the disease..... Frustrated incorporated!!

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"The finding is an important step toward developing a vaginal gel that may prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS."

Can the gelbe used for anal lube?
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500 miligrams of zinc oxide a day will do the same thing
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developing a vaginal gel that may prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Gee... Why a vaginal gel??? scratching
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Two questions arise from this....

What happens to the nano particles once the venom has been distributed?

What happens once all bees have died of due to colony collapse disorder?
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wowsee...wowsee...
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Honey Bee venom will kill cancer as well. It makes the bodies immune system react to it...
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nano particles -> nanobots -> asymmetrical biowarfare -> shoulda just used a condom

This scares me. No thanks.
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nano particles -> nanobots -> asymmetrical biowarfare -> shoulda just used a condom

This scares me. No thanks.
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Sounds like homeopathic medicine.
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And what happens if you are allergic to bee venom?
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huge news thanks OP
likely the last tiem we will hear about this. big pharm will bury it quickly
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28548694

With all respect, your comment is not supported by fact, and reveals a deep (habitual?) cynicism. Get a mega-dose of optimism somewhere.





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