Medical Equipments Reviews

Health sciences and scientific research to find a new technique that enables them to see clearly genetic AIDS virus.

This technique is like providing a “big picture” to facilitate the genetic study of the AIDS virus. Not only led to the discovery of AIDS therapies in new ways, this technique can also be used to observe and diseases such as influenza virus and others.

“We really hope that this technique can help find the most potent drugs,” said Kevin Weeks of the University of North Carolina, as quoted by Reuters.

“We’ve had a series of major plans we can try through this technique,” he added.

According to Weeks, there are many structures contained in the RNA of HIV genetic role in the expression of the genetic code. Formerly, the role of this structure is not considered to have an important role.

Weeks and his team then developed a new chemical method called SHAPE to create an image of RNA nucleotides and also its shape and fold the edge of the RNA.

Other imaging methods such as X-ray Crystallography can capture the position of each atom exactly, but only in small areas. While SHAPE, showed greater imaging, but not at the atomic level.

“In essence, this technique such a way that enlarge image imaging genetic mapping to get a broader view and more complete details on the genetic virus,” said Weeks.

This technique will help researchers create drugs that is more effective to treat a variety of viruses from the disease.

New drugs will be produced to meet the specific requirements of the virus structure, so it can block them to attack the cells or at least prevent it can replicate itself.