I have been wondering how to post my unfinished thoughts, hence fulfilling the name of the blog. For instance, given the recent chimpanzee attack, how could a team of chimpanzee's be harnessed to commit bank robberies? More on that later...
Regarding the elimination of HIV by antiretroviral therapy. In a recent New Scientist article it was proposed that if everyone infected was on antiretrovirals, there would be essentially zero transmission of HIV. Putting everyone of these drugs, given the expense is impossible. Not to mention getting them to take them, and eventual mutations that would eventually emerge.
Nevertheless, the idea for a solution I have is linked to another unfinished thought to be posted later. What if everyone (at least the infected) were implanted with a chip that synthesized and dosed the medication as needed?
The synthesis would have to be based on microorganisims (bacteria, ect) that had been altered to produce a drug along a particular pathway. The implant would maintain the level of these organisims, controlling their reporduction, fuel them by collecting nurtients from the blood, all the necessary things. The chip could then adjust the dosage so that little to no user imput was needed.
This would be a good way to administer many if not all drugs. It would be a bit ironic since we would be trying to coax organisims into doing our chemistry instead of trying to go the other way round.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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