Hear me out, measles can cause immune system amnesia. People with autoimmune disorders have immune systems that want to kill them. What if we use the immune system amnesia property of measles to reset the immune system of people suffering with autoimmune disorders? Maybe we could do some crispr on the measles virus to make it not as dangerous or something like that first though.
This seems like a question that you might ask in an askscience or science community.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
last time i asked this question i was called an idiot just for asking (and it was no stupid questions), so i’m not chiming in
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
to be fair, it does sound like a very stupid question.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
It sounds like a really smart question. Most people have no idea how measles, or any virus, works.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
so like hey if you work on a phd in this, let me know please i’m really curious
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
i mean, do we really understand the mechanism by which measles does the reset all that well? that’s my first question, but you know.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Problem with this and just about anything related to the human body (and a million other subjects) is that the answer usually is: it’s not that simple.
The human body is extremely complicated with countless different proteins and system each performing multiple tasks all mixed throughput your body and with all of our knowledge we probably still only know a fraction of what there is to know.
Typically if someone comes up with “this one simple trick”, the answer is “it’s not that simple” and if someone sells you a simple solution (zinc! Ivermectin!) it’s bullshit