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Cure for the common cold found?

A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory - Science, News - The Independent

This is huge. If this method works, it could lead to cures for many problems facing the world. Even possibly treatments for HIV.

or turn us all into rage Zombies.

Win/win either way

This is very interesting news... it will be exciting to see if anything comes of it.

I like the possibility that dormant viruses may actually be treatable in time.

Good lord, the comments section for that article is filled with a staggering amount of stupid people.

Tress said:

Good lord, the comments section for that article is filled with a staggering amount of stupid people.

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Of course. It's about science and it's on the internet.

Who bothers to read comments at the end of an article?

It's nice to know that Nature can be trained to recognize a wolf in sheep's clothing.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

It's nice to know that Nature can be trained to recognize a wolf in sheep's clothing.

--Patrick

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No, nature already does that, what they are talking about if finding a way of helping it do it more efficiently... while the breakthrough is the fact that they discovered nature can do it.

/confusion spell

This is pretty cool stuff. So instead of figuring out ways to kill a cell (like chemo and such) we can find ways to boost the antibodies to kill the virus for us.

That is REALLY good news.