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Submission + - KU Leuven researchers develop method to permanently disable HIV virus (belganewsagency.eu)

nrosier writes: Researchers at KU Leuven have developed a method to render HIV viruses permanently harmless. The research was published on Thursday in the scientific journal Nature Communications.

Currently, 600,000 people worldwide still die from HIV infection every year. However, thanks to antiretroviral drugs, patients' quality of life has improved significantly and the number of new infections has fallen dramatically. However, as the medication only suppresses the virus, patients must take it for life.

Researchers at KU Leuven have now discovered a way to disable the virus completely in cells in a laboratory environment. Professor of molecular medicine Zeger Debyser describes this as a "scientific breakthrough". "Much clinical research is still needed before a new treatment can be developed, but this is already a big step forward."

Comment Re:so... (Score 1) 296

By your reckoning, if somebody is shooting at you with a semi-automatic rifle, nothing is happening... but if you shoot back at them with a pistol, YOU have started a war? Interesting.

Your analogy is flawed. The other countries were shooting 'targetted' with a pistol. Trump entered like an elephant in china shop and opened an automatic rifle on anything that moves (or even doesn't). That is starting a war!

As to why there is a trade imbalance. You are only looking at the goods, not services. The US is a major services exporter to at least Europe. And as for goods: just export what we want, not what you think we want. Prime example are cars: most US brands failed big as they didn't sell cars the Europeans want. Food: we have strict laws about food-safety and regulation (hormone-treated beef, chlorine washed chicken) applying to everybody, EU and non-EU producers. I'm not saying there is no protection of our market but in both cases it also come down to not selling what the buyer wants.

Comment Re:The TV industry failing to adapt (Score 2, Insightful) 1077

Did video recorders somehow pass you by?

I live in Belgium and built my own PVR. The biggest problems recording shows over here:

- getting decent program information (no XMLTV service available so you have to use a grabber and the information isn't always accurate)
- most stations decide on the fly to change their schedule/programming because of sport-events and other stuff
- most channels have no notion of starting on time so I have to program the PVR to start recording 5 minutes before the indicated time and record for an extra 10 minutes afterwards.... and still you get shows that aren't recorded completely.

As the original poster said; it's all about convenience. I can watch 1h worth of live TV in 2/3rds of the time when it suits me. I usually get home late from work so it saves me time and allows me to watch when I can.

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