Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold?

Roland Piquepaille writes "After 30 years of work, Saint Louis University researchers have genetically engineered a common cold virus to fight cancerous cells while leaving unaffected healthy ones. They received a patent for this research and clinical tests on humans will start soon, according to this news release. Dr. William Wold, chair of the department of molecular microbiology and immunology, received the patent No. 6,627,190 for his work. Preclinical testing has already been done so clinical trials should start soon. We can only hope they will be successful. This overview contains many more details and references about this potential cure for all kinds of cancer. [Note: this is a very different project from the one mentioned by a previous Slashdot post.]"

Comments

Re:I thoroughly hope this succeeds

[corbettw]

The world has a touch too many people in it already...

This is gonna sound like a troll or flamebait, but it's not. I'm going to be absurd to point out the absurdity of your statement. Too bad /. moderators are even more absurd, requiring this disclaimer.

If you honestly felt this way, you'd do the honorable thing and end your life. Otherwise your complaint is really that there are too many other people in the world.

Re:Obligatory

[BorgDrone]

but who would want to bother staying alive if there was no hope for sex?
You realize you're asking this on slashdot ?