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allthingshyper: gehayi: hiddlesbatchlove: forever-falling-forward: platredeparis: bnycolew: mannysiege: Progress What Imma just let this sit here MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE sources: Engagdget DailyTech CBS They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing. Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell. ALL OF IT. IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS Does it scale?Because we see miraculous progress in HIV research on a near annual basis, and science reporting is really bad in mainstream media so small trails that the paper pronounces caution. That almost always turns out to have been a dead end, all I can muster with this sort of ‘not even animal testing but testing on a single cell’ at this point is cautious optimism. -- source link