Why havent we cured cancer yeeeeeeeeet?
Category: Cancer
Tumors evolving resistance to therapy... $&#@!!
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.
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- XMRV Update: The science
- Measles at the Super Bowl
- Zinc supplements for severe childhood pneumonia
- Why havent we cured cancer yeeeeeeeeet?
- Shit grad students say
- Tennessee senator not concerned about dead babies, women, or men. If they were HIV+, they werent 'regular' anyway.
- Oklahoma senator concerned about dead babies in his Mountain Dew
- Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in the bloodstream can interfere with vaccine response
- HIV Snake Oil 'cure' leads to arrests in Uganda
- Antibodies in breast milk can interfere with vaccine response
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- Justicar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- harold on Measles at the Super Bowl
- ERV on Periodic Table of Swearing
- An Ardent Skeptic on Periodic Table of Swearing
- Justicar on Measles at the Super Bowl
- Justicar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- Scented Nectar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- theshortearedowl on Measles at the Super Bowl
- Justicar on Periodic Table of Swearing
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Evolution, Immunology, and Vaccines: Tomato, Tomahto, Tomater!
Category: Evolution
ERV talkin about evilution and vaccines!
Posted by ERV at 9:50 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Antibodies: Evolution in action II
Category: Evolution
Gene duplication = LOTS AND LOTS OF ANTIBODIES!!! YAY!!
Posted by ERV at 8:00 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Antibodies: Evolution in action
Category: Evolution
Gene duplication and divergence--> Lots of different shapes of antibody butts.
Posted by ERV at 11:13 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ERV LIVE and IRL! HIV-1 and Vaccines!
Category: Vaccines
I suck! Desiree Schelle has been trying to get me on Skeptically Speaking since, like, last December, and I keep getting busy and putting it off and then I was like "GHA I SUCK NAME A DATE!" So Im going...
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
XMRV Evilution: Its more than just change over time
Category: Evolution
Even virologists can mess up 'evolution'
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Vpu vs Behe, Round Amillionty
Category: Evolution
A couple weeks ago, Teh Discovery Institute held some kind of revival 'conference' at a local Evangelical church. The Usual Suspects were there-- Caseytits, West, some other guy, but also my HIV Evolution BFF Michael Behe. I ended up not...
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HIV-1: Humans are all pink on the inside. Pink, and CD4+ T-cells.
Category: Evolution
There is some percentage of the population who have a better prognosis if infected with HIV-1 than the rest of us. Remember those pirate flags and sombreros I talk about sometimes? Major histocompatibility complexes, type I. Some people put up...
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HIV-1 CTL Vaccine: lol, we are screwed.
Category: HIV/AIDS
Glance back at this post for a refresher on what Im going to write about here. Quick recap:HIV-1 usually evolves around this to 'hide' from CTLs. Maybe it puts a sombrero on the skull so the CTLs think its a...
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ERV Starship
Category: ERVs
We built this genome (do-do-doo) We built this genome on viral guuuuts... GUUUUUUUTS!
Posted by ERV at 12:00 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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