[justsomeguy]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

Nosauz, YOU CAN'T CURE AIDS OR CANCER.

AIDS Virus that will/has already mutated form it original when it was first introduce into the human species and it will keep mutating so at best you can comeup with a cure for a certain strain of AIDS but will be useless against other strains.

Cancer is the result of your body making bad copies of its cells. You can't cure something like, you can just make a drug to tell your body to not do something.

I think you're just arguing the definition of the word "cure," but I have to disagree with several points.

Yes, HIV mutates. No, it cannot mutate into infinite different forms. Most individual virus particles just grab whatever DNA it can on its way out of the infected cell. A very large proportion are unable to reproduce further because they grabbed the wrong genes, or detrimental mutations that reduce later generations' ability to infect a cell. There is only so much mutation that HIV can undergo before it becomes something that is not HIV, possibly something relatively benign or easily treatable.

As for cancer, that is not the body making bad copies, it is specific cells making bad copies of cells. Research concentrates on making targeting those cells more precise to minimize destruction of healthy tissue, and whole-body poisoning like chemotherapy is something everybody is trying to move away from.

Originally Posted by Nosauz

uugutttccccgguuctuc... etc

Given that A is in DNA, and U replaces T in RNA, your sequence is not found in nature and might actually very well be patentable, if some sort of use can be found for it.