Thread: HELP Funding Duke Research!

Quote: Originally Posted by talesofagirl First, I don't see anything in your wikipedia link that suggest that acyclovir does not kill herpes. I copied this from an article you probably don't have access to. It's from a 1998 article in the village voice, which can be found here http://www.villagevoice.com/1998-12-...-common-cold/1 There is a perponderance of evidence that acyclovir does not kill the infected cell. From...

if you look at the qualifications and awards of dr.cullen i would think he would recognize the outcomes of it and so far he hasn't expressed any big concerns. and our bodies im sure are capable of producing extra cells that are lost. they do it all the time. i certainly would be willing to take the risk chemotherapy does loads of cell damage and kills loads of cells. the body still makes up the cells again eventually. did he say something...

Quote: Originally Posted by ntdc Did you direct him to post at this forum? I know Bill Halford had made some postings on the HHP forum in the past. We'd certainly love to hear from him. frankly with the way some on the forum speak of him not being honest about his being a "cure" and about his timeline, im not sure he would like some of the things that he would read.

I think that would be a great idea. I am happy to start a thread for Duke, and then update it as people post to it, but maybe I should wait and we can get one going with numbers for all three.

Look, I'm not going to go searching to disprove what you're saying about acyclovir. The wiki article you pointed to never says that it doesn't kill the infected cell. I didn't say I didn't trust it--I said it doesn't say what you claim it does. In fact, none of the links you provided do. They describe its mechanism, but stop at the inhibition of replication. These links do, however, attest to Cullen's point....

Quote: Originally Posted by brokenbeautiful Hi everyone... basically I am trying to manage my stress by researching this excessively so... I took a look at the research they are doing into HSV cures and I hate to say it but it will be a LONG time before a cure is on the horizon. I'm not trying to be negative but having spent several years in a research environment I thought I should share what I know. Firstly, they are still working at...

thats not true at all. i have a feeling from what i read its gonna work on both due to the fact that they are virtually the same. they work the same and have same caracteristics.

I am going to write to Kathleen Kingsbury of Time magazine who wrote an article about the study in 2008. Let's keep writing her to do a follow up article that funding is needed. Link to the Times article http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...819739,00.html Click on her name Kathleen Kingsbury in the article to give feedback.

How does latency prevent antiviral action? Is it just that the lack of viral thymidine kinase prevents Acyclovir from being converted to its active form ? (In which an antiviral drug that is not TK enabled would seem to be a solution.) Or does the fact that the double strands of the HSV DNA are bonded together during latency prevent antiviral molecules bonding to, and blocking, the viral DNA?

I wrote an e-mail to Bryan R. Cullen, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Director, Duke University Center for Virology He is the one who over-saw the research done this year. I inquired about how the public could help fund his research, and here was his response: "Dear Mr. xxx, Thank you for your interest in our research. As there have been many enquiries as to how this progressing, I have drafterd a general...