Quote: chipolata @ 20th April 2020, 4:13 PM
Isn't that sort of true for most viruses, though? They start a mystery but we slowly discover more and more until we know enough to create a vaccine.
Maybe. I don't know much about HIV but I think they found out what it was transmitted in fairly quickly. I don't see this happening here as they have so many conflicting ideas about air, surfaces etc. I'm convinced that work on exosome theory has been suppressed by resources being diverted into the vaccine industry. If it turns out that exosomes represent half of medical understanding then it becomes the case that for the last hundred years we have only had half the picture.
I've found fringe research papers on exosomes which nobody has ever bothered to bring together so in a limited way I have done. So far I have found that their activity is linked to HIV, pulmonary and lung disease, Alzheimers, diabetes, panic disorder, depression, anxiety, retina disorder and schizophrenia and I haven't even looked at other things like cancer yet. That is quite some list and it suggests they have a role in the entire body. They are essentially mostly for the good unless and until they are toxicified by the diseases they are sent like troops - or pac-man - to defeat. It all depends on if they win.
I was particularly taken by this one - "Exosomes in human semen carry a distinctive repertoire of small non-coding RNAs with potential regulatory functions" - because it says that not only do exosomes gather in considerable numbers in semen but act very unusually there as they (1) aid fertility and (2) contribute to the risk of infection. The paper implies that this positive and negative force does have a bearing on what has been observed in HIV treatment. But also, I am tentatively suggesting that it is a good starting point for research into why men seem to be affected more by coronavirus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066774/