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To: i-node who wrote (497668)	7/23/2009 1:16:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570681

Inode, > Moreover, I don't know what makes him think there will be more "miracles of modern medicine" if Obamacare passes and they remove the profits from medical R&D activities. It's not just profits. It's the fundamental nature of viruses. Z is putting his faith in a vaccine. But the whole concept of vaccines was discovered a century ago by Jonas Salk, and even that can't overcome viruses that love to mutate, such as HIV or even the flu. One of these days, I hope to help develop computer programs that will "solve" (for lack of a better term) the puzzle of protein-folding. That could lead to cures which are developed through biotech engineering rather than relying on the human immune system to produce antibodies. But even then, I would hope that such biomedical and biotech research would go toward worthy causes like saving lives and curing crippling diseases, rather than maintaining a lifestyle of moral depravity. Tenchusatsu