FREE ESSAY ON DO VIRUSES HELP?

DO VIRUSES HELP?

HOW ABOUT VIRUSES?
Just like bacteria viruses are one of the microbes that are winning the match against the
humans. Viruses were the toughest one to tackle for the scientist. The shape, contents
and their protective shields were the most challenging part of the fight. There are many
ways one can treat cancer, but for AIDS doctors prescribe a cocktail of drugs in which
some are enzyme inhibitors, protein inhibitors and while some are RNA inhibitors. This is
not it in the cocktail there is more to the list. As the technology increases and the
knowledge of our scientist about the DNA, RNA, Viruses, Bacteria, and other interesting
things we are a step closer to the destruction of the virus. 
The hardest part of the virus is that it mutates a lot. Just like bacteria viruses do get
resistant to drugs we take against them. For example if one catches cold or flu the
doctors prescribe Amoxicycilin or something similar to it. If the patient doesn't finish
the dosage there is a likelihood for the cold virus to get resistant to Amoxicycilin
resulting a second drug intake. Pharmaceutical industries are trying to take a new
approach to make antiviral drugs. One recently developed shows remarkable effects on the
herpes virus. The recent antiviral drug indirectly attacks the virus making it hard for
the virus to develop resistance to. Until today what the antiviral drugs did was they
interfered with the production of the essential protein by the viruses. Viruses are also
denoted as parasites, meaning that they infect a host as its life support. 
To fight the war against the viruses University of Pennsylvania Medical Center researches
took the herpes simplex virus for experimental purpose, they found out that by inhibiting
certain set of cellular enzymes they can successfully stop all the viral activity which
causes the host to become sick. "These enzymes are called cyclin-dependent kinases, or
cdks. This enzyme along with other enzymes drive and coordinate cell division." This
enzyme is also used by other viruses for replication purposes thus what Penn. team did
was they too the cdks inhibitor and infected the virus with it, the result that came out
was that the cells didn't replicate and the host cells were healthy. 
According to the statistics Herpes Simplex Virus 1 and Herpes Simplex Virus 2 strains
have infected 80% and 20% respectively, the remarkable thing is that these cdks
inhibitors work best on these two strains of HSV. Along with these two strains of HSV
there is a third strain called Human CytoMegloVirus or HCMV which infects also 80% of the
people, the cdks inhibitors shut this virus down for good. Tests are going to be
conducted on the HIV, adenovirus, papovavirus, and parvovirus with the cdks inhibitors
for these viruses work almost the same as HSV. 
If this drug works there might be a possibility for the people who have one of these
viruses to be cured with one pill or with a cocktail in which one more pill is added to
it. But the fight against viruses is not easy to win for they are just more complicated
than what we think it is. I learned that human race has still one more chance to survive
for few more years. Before I read this article I thought that just like dinosaurs were
extinct we are going to be too. But the only difference will be that they didn't know
their reason of what caused the wiping of their race but we will Viruses.