Saturday, October 29, 2005
Bubonic Plague and AIDS
Apparently plague survivors had (and their descendands have) a gene that protects them from both the plague and the modern scourge HIV. If both your parents have the gene, you're immune to HIV.
Hopefully in a few years genetic engineering will help use this knowledge to create a way to implant the gene in non-carriers and thus defeat AIDS.
Hopefully in a few years genetic engineering will help use this knowledge to create a way to implant the gene in non-carriers and thus defeat AIDS.
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