Brutkey

Daniel Reeders
@onekind@beige.party

You gotta keep 'em innovatin'

Stephen Ball writes on Facebook: There's been lots of big progress on curing HIV recently, with a new mRNA approach to making the virus vulnerable, and reports that infants given anti-retrovirals early enough show zero HIV count even when they stop the drugs. (1 worked with Retrovir and others in a lab about 20 years ago, so this is exciting) But what | didn't expect was that one person contributing to the success of the last month's MRNA breakthrough was... the lead singer of the band The Offspring, Dexter Holland. He quit Uni in 1994 when the band took off, and went back in 2017 to finish his PhD in “molecular biology", and wrote a paper called: “Discovery of Mature MicroRNA Sequences within the Protein-Coding Regions of Global HIV-1 Genomes: Predictions of Novel Mechanisms for Viral Infection and Pathogenicity" ‘which the latest HIV work may have built on. The paper was also “heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine" (according to the internet). He did talk about mRNA and the Moderna vax in 2021. So there you go. The dude who sang "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" may have just helped to cure AIDS. (He also kicked out the band's drummer in 2021 after 14 years because the drummer was anti-vax, and frankly the lead singer had been heavily influential in developing *that specific vax’, so).
Y Gath Goch
@ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz

@onekind@beige.party that’s amazing.