Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Fish Human

Howard T Odum thought that free economic systems evolve according to the Maximum Power Principle.

Here, application of the same principle to fish farming.  Temperature gradient is managed so that fishes grow at the fastest rate.


Sunday, June 22, 2008

HIV/AIDs Related Info

I researched this because I'm owning their stock shares. Hopefully, it will be successful going through all the trial phases.

http://www.panacos.com/documents/panacosmovie.html

Another vid on YT about HIV -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RO8MP3wMvqg

Kuby's Immunology also has good info on HIV/AIDs.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Immunotherapy

"Researchers in the US who were treating the patient extracted white blood cells, the key component of the immune system, and grew one type the infection-fighting CD4+ T cells in the laboratory. The cloned T cells, which had been vastly expanded, were then reinfused to the patient to fight the cancer."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10517282

Why didn't I think of this? Now that I had failed, I'm thinking about all sort of possibilities. The body, esp. of those with a compromised immune system, is an inferior cell plant. Outside the body and inside the lab, there shouldn't be anything getting in the way of production scaling of whatever type of cells that are needed. What if AIDS patients are treated this way, while at the same time, be on some sort of cocktail drugs to that keep viral population at a minimum?

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Cold News

A researcher with JHU is paving the path for possible new drugs that block production of two key proteins involved in inflammation of the nasal passage. This is great. It means basically symptom-less colds and quick recovery (<3 days?) See link

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/19may08/19immune.html