Ice cream gel 'from a seaweed may protect against HIV'

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Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:17 AM

Ice cream gel 'may protect against HIV' - Your News from Ananova

 

 

> Scientists are to test a gel made from a seaweed also used in ice cream

which they hope can be used to protect women against HIV.

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> Clinical trials are to start later this year on Carraguard, a gel made

from a red seaweed which grows along the coasts of Nova Scotia and Chile.

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> The gel has already been found to block sexually-transmitted diseases

including herpes and gonorrhoea during trials with animals.

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> Full story: http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_509667.html

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[Guest guest]

This is a very delicate description. What they are actually talking

about is the gross icky slime off of kelp which is collected,

dehydrated and sold for food use. That is what makes ice crystals not

form in your ice cream so it stays smooth after a week or two in the

freezer. Yes, the same stuff you tried not to step on at the beach.

 

This should work to keep women from getting assorted infections just

like any other thick gooey stuff would.

 

Andy

 

 

 

> Ice cream gel 'may protect against HIV' - Your News from

Ananova

>

>

> > Scientists are to test a gel made from a seaweed also used in ice

cream

> which they hope can be used to protect women against HIV.

> >

> > Clinical trials are to start later this year on Carraguard, a gel

made

> from a red seaweed which grows along the coasts of Nova Scotia and

Chile.

> >

> > The gel has already been found to block sexually-transmitted

diseases

> including herpes and gonorrhoea during trials with animals.

> >

> > Full story: http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_50966