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Topic: Antiviral treatment

Posted By: reifidom
Subject: Antiviral treatment
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 1:03pm

http://www.livescience.com/health/080205-virus-shattering.html - A potential weapon against viral infections is in experimentation.

Viruses are not, strictly speaking, alive, and destroying them has been very problematic. A new area of research has opened up to use a 'mechanical' method to destroy a viral organism... Shake the bejesus out of them. Vibrate them, with laser energy thus far and other methods posited, so that the resonance tears them apart enough that they cannot function.

Article wrote:

Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses in the same way that opera singers presumably shatter wine glasses. New research mathematically determined the frequencies at which simple viruses could be shaken to death.
"The capsid of a virus is something like the shell of a turtle," said physicist Otto Sankey of Arizona State University. "If the shell can be compromised [by mechanical vibrations], the virus can be inactivated."

That's a hell of an idea.

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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 1:19pm

Cool.

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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 1:48pm

If the technology and science pan out as computing power increases (and it would have to increase a lot) they could potentially develop an ultrasound that would eradicate HIV. Just a possibility.

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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 1:56pm

Analog FTL, n00b.

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Yup, he actually said that.

Posted By: ¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 1:58pm

I've still got a virus, and I feel like

Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 2:10pm

brihard wrote:

Analog FTL, n00b.

He certainly seems pleased with his results, and that his computer porn wasn't lost.

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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 2:23pm

reifidom wrote:

brihard wrote:

Analog FTL, n00b.

He certainly seems pleased with his results, and that his computer porn wasn't lost.

What makes you think that??

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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 2:53pm

what happens if your frequency is the same as the virus'?

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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 3:02pm

They have to tune it to destroy specific segments of the virus' composition, and the cells of the human body respond to a much lower frequency range, so says the article. I can't imagine there isn't some overlap, but still, the results are probably worth some side effects.

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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 3:08pm

heh... yeah...viruses are trick... they're basically a cell membrane filled with segments of RNA, and various receptors.

actually, they're thought to be the reason why our strands of DNA are so long, and that most of it isn't coded for anything in particular. all the viruses that implanted themselves into our dna just sort of stayed with us, and our cells were able to overcome/ignore these coded regions.