Scientists have elicited a rapid immune system response to HIV in four cows:
Cows have shown an "insane" and "mind-blowing" ability to tackle HIV which will help develop a vaccine, say US researchers. In a first for immunisation, the animals rapidly produced special types of antibody that can neutralise HIV. It is thought cows evolved a supreme immune defence due to their complex and bacteria-packed digestive system. The US National Institutes of Health said the findings were of "great interest".
[...] Then researchers at the International Aids Vaccine Initiative and the Scripps Research Institute tried immunising cows. "The response blew our minds," Dr Devin Sok, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website. The required antibodies were being produced by the cow's immune system in a matter of weeks. Dr Sok added: "It was just insane how good it looked, in humans it takes three-to-five years to develop the antibodies we're talking about.
Moo.
Also at Time and Science News.
Rapid elicitation of broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV by immunization in cows (DOI: 10.1038/nature23301) (DX)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:33AM
I overheard a woman in a Chipotle restaurant tell her friend, "I love meeting bitches I knew in high school because then I can see they got fat."
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we have a ... crazy person (MDC), that regularly posts more coherent and interesting things than do these racist trolls
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @04:13AM
So the 40 year old virgins can get laid now? It's been 36 years since HIV was discovered, and risk of AIDS was the alleged excuse for postponing sex indefinitely. Of course not! AIDS was always just a convenient excuse. There's still the insurmountable stigma of growing up socially awkward and being nerdy and living for binary code. Steve Jobs and Steve Woz ruined the lives of an entire generation of boys who were born when Apple was founded 40 years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:01AM (3 children)
If you want your children to be HIV immune, you mate with a cow? Maybe I'll just pass on having children.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:33AM
I think the idea is to isolate the antibodies the cows make and transplant them into humans
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:20PM
Just imagine all the little HIV immune Minotaurs running around in your yard ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @02:42PM
> If you want your children to be HIV immune, you mate with a cow? Maybe I'll just pass on having children.
Makes you wonder how HIV immune some farmers are, doesn't it?
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:49AM (8 children)
as former anti-vaccination nutters switch to feeding their children unpasteurized dairy products.
compiling...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:07AM (6 children)
We already do this. Consequently Amish have lower rates of heart attacks, strokes, allergies, downs syndrome, and pretty much everything else your stupid part of the world has...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:04AM
Yes, I'm sure that the one variable, the single thing that is different between Amish folks and the stupid part of the world is milk pasteurization.
Now that you mention it, I've never noticed any other differences at all.
I'm a lactose intolerant blacksmith hobbyist who enjoys horse and buggy rides. Perhaps I've missed something critical, but I'm certain you're right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:32AM (4 children)
The Amish anomaly regarding autism is pure fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_anomaly [wikipedia.org]
Everything else goes down to having no cars \ air pollution, limited alcohol and Tobacco, etc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_among_the_Amish [wikipedia.org]
Though Amish surfing the web is news to me...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:58AM (3 children)
I'm pretty sure that the Amish can do anything, if they only wait until the rest of the world has been doing it for enough years already. Some of them even drive cars now!!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @10:08AM (2 children)
Well, I don't think they're too keen on butt-sex, and that's been around forever
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @10:39AM (1 child)
How do you know - did you ask?
Besides, the article says the *cows* are the ones with built-in protection, not the Amish, so maybe you were in the wrong paddock, or you should have asked the farmer to hold the cow, instead...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:14PM
I'm pretty sure he'll need a stepstool . . .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:38PM
authoritarian boot lickers think they are counter culture. how twisted. you're just a brainwashed whore. a "stay" voter, no doubt. you are a bleating sheep, ready for the slaughter.
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Sunday July 23 2017, @04:15PM
Now all they have to do is figure out how to shrink the cows enough to make them usable in a vaccine.
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @04:15PM (1 child)
AIDS was created in the laboratory to control world population. Is is no wonder they never "found" a cure. The cure has been around forever but has been suppressed. When a land contains minerals and things the over-rich want, they pass around a disease to the people of that land so that their resources can be stolen. Wars are also started among tribes so they keep fighting each other while both sides are being robbed.
Iff (no spelling mistake) the cure is made available cheaply and anyone infected can be saved, the over-rich will finance a variation of the virus and pass that around instead.
Never underestimate the cunning and evil of the jew.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:02PM
Deplorable spotted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:00PM
as a nice side effect, we smell like fart all the time! Hurray!!!!!!