(No worries about knowledge level. We're all here to learn, and I'm probably wrong about somethings.)

So, HIV goes latent, so there is effectively no virus. There is nothing for the drug to kill. When HIV goes back into the lytic cycle, you have to have the drug there to kill the virus, but you don't know when HIV goes back to lytic; it can be 2 weeks or 2 decades. You would have to keep the patient on the drug during this whole time or at least keep monitoring the patient and giving them the drug whenever it flares up.

(That's the simplified version. The more complicated version involves HIV never really going latent in the lymphoid organs, slowly infecting more and more CD4 cells, leading to AIDS. It could be that if this drug can get into the lymphoid tissues, you can reduce the viral load inside to make them long-term non-progressors, but that's more complicated.)

The RNA from HIV is retro-transcribed into DNA which is integrated into the host cell genome. It can become latent where it does not actively replicate virus. That's why HIV patients can live so long. Something then later triggers the lytic phase where the viral replication resumes, eventually leading to AIDS.

An agent that kills HIV will remove HIV from your system, but the latent virus DNA inside cells remain undetected and cannot be removed.

Even if you can kill the HIV virus, you still wouldn't have a cure.

HIV is a retrovirus. It becomes part of the infected cell's genome. Any agent that kills the virus can suppress symptoms/disease but not cure people who are already infected.

P.S. Please take off your tin-foil hat. The glare is quite annoying.

The 400x part is usually meaningless. It's just 40x objective and a 10x eye piece. What actually matters is the resolution.

Resolution can be improved by things like deconvolution as used in TFS, but that's still relatively low. You can easily start flirting with 7 digit figures when you use confocal microscopy and variations of laser excitation. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy

As a biologist, I have no idea why they're making such a big deal of it being a $225,000 deconvolution microscope. It's cheap compared with what most institutions have. Besides which is the fact that the microscope used isn't interesting. Any high(ish) resolution fluorescent microscope would have given you the same data. The interesting part is this TRIM5a. Let's see what happens with recombinant TRIM5a in animal studies.

Life is kind of a crap game. The graphics are great but the gameplay sucks!

What kind of lawyer takes on a case like this?

Are they alive? Maybe he can sue them too!

Instead of indicting everyone under the sun, let's do something to fix it instead of tossing people in jail. Many people contributed a little, like Murder on the Orient Express. In the end, the ultimate responsibility rested on the Pilot-in-Command who paid the price for his mistakes. Let's learn from it instead.

1. Revise procedures so that the PNF (Pilot-Not-Flying) visually confirms the flap & slats indicator instead of just reading it to the PF (Pilot Flying)

2. Design future systems such that the take-off config warning isn't on the same circuit breaker as the Total-Air-Temp sensor. (I'm a recreational pilot, not an engineer, so I don't know if there's a valid reason for them to be on the same circuit.) Also, have an EICAS warning when the take-off-config alarm is disabled.

3. Have the engineers remind the pilots / placard the cockpit to remind them that the take-off-config alarm is disabled.

4. Flapless take-off attempts leading to accidents are not a new thing to airplanes. Further training seems to be required, especially as the small aircraft we all initially learn in will take off without flaps.