Community | August 07, 2009 | 1 comment

prehisoric gene reawakened to battle HIV

Scientists have found the same ability Old world apes use to defend against HIV inside a section of human "junk" DNA

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000095
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1 comment // prehisoric gene reawakened to battle HIV

  • couldntfindausername
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      couldntfindausername  

    • It's 2am so my brain's a bit fuzzy but that looks like a decidedly awesome piece of research.

      This sort of thing is mad - it's like they just ask JK Rowling to do a science paper every now nd then just for lulz. Accio 7 million year old peptide.

    • 3 years ago
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