Recently, I saw (as usual, on /.) a couple of news items/links to articles that made my day a degree brighter. One relates to a prototype vaccine for AIDS which has obviously managed to prevent a little above 30% of expected infections. Of course, one central problem with fighting AIDS is that scientists need actual humans to test the vaccines and other medical produce on, which represents a very tough ethical dilemma -infect people with AIDS to produce vaccine against it? – in itself. On the other hand, this recent development is something of a major breakthrough since no other earlier treatment had managed anything near this percentage of prevented infections.
In somewhat related news, researchers seem to have discovered a possible link between sleep deprivation and Alzheimer’s disease. Although this is just a small step toward uncovering the myriad interconnected factors that cause/contribute to the illness, it is nevertheless quite important. If the link can be confirmed for all, or most, of the cases, that would mean discovering a rather easily manageable cause for Alzheimer’s which can be brought under control, or perhaps completely eliminated. Let us hope for the best. Q. W3ary out.
27th September 2009 at 13:18
The AIDS vaccine is nonsense. Their methods are completely unscientific and illogical, and the math by which they get to 30% is crazy and makes no sense at all. I was also quite happy to hear about it at first, but upon reading the details I was actually quite enraged.
More on this later, we have to go vote now.
17th October 2009 at 14:19
Awesome blog!
I thought about starting my own blog too but I’m just too lazy so, I guess I’ll just have to keep checking yours out.
LOL,
19th October 2009 at 20:06
Hey, thanks! If you do start your own blog, however, do send me a link.