All diseases / conditions dealing with DNA / RNA can be cured.

This comes from PBS: NOVA scienceNOW Episode 3 - segment RNAi

Summary: A wayward petunia leads to the discovery of modest little molecules with enormous medical promise.

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Oh, by the way Science is very cool.

All of the other scienceNOW Episode(s) can be found at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs.html

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That was very interesting. I can already see some of the church folk not agreeing with this.

I agree Science is very cool. And I think this is the proper place to post this,

Just reading this and not looking further into it, AIDS now has a cure if this is right.

EDIT: Just read it and that's the first thing it says.

wow, what a breakthrough.

Wow that's some amazing stuff!

Oh, by the way, science is not a proper noun.

i can't be bothered to look into thisfully at this time, soooo tired, but it looks and sounds very promising,

Religion has always stood in the way of science. It's there lot to keep the masses fearful and ignorant. ...Smoke mirrors/gods will...

There is no good reason for AIDS not being cured 10 years ago...except for a bunch of high-handed bible thumpers keeping it on the "back burner" because it was a "gay" disease.

haha nicely said. The same with stem cell research. I'm for it if it will save lives.

I'll just comment on this quickly



There is a good reason for AIDS not being cured and that's because the pathogen doesn't respond to our anti-viral treatments.

It is unrealistic to think a sexually transmitted disease like this can be eradicted socially but yes I agree with you the Catholic Church has some role to play in the high rates of infection we see in Africa. That said, they don't ban contraceptives because it's a disease that statistically affects homosexuals more - indeed there is a higher prevalence in heterosexuals than homosexuals in Africa - but to encourage fidelity and, for the very conservative, because they believe contraception is a form of abortion.

Playing around with genetics has always been a huge moral issue in the field of science without any influence from the religious sector. We can screen your embryos for the most common and well-defined genetic illnesses and reject the bad ones but this by no means rules out any other conditions without even contemplating if it is right if some people are born "superior".

Didnt the judge on the simpsons make a restraining order to solve this problem? science must stay 50m from religion at all times.

But on a serious note, a very interesting development, Great find, thanks

It is when its the name of a Magazine/Journal prevelant among the scientific community in the US or when its an abbreviation for part of the title of the show in question;)