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Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold?

Posted by simoniker on from the osmosis-jones dept.

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.]"

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  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Saddam captured.
    Return of the King
    Now... Cancer Cured?

    1. Re:Wow by the_1000th_Monkey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's not even several hours old and you've already forgotten the Linux 2.6.0 being released!

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      where'd my typewriter go?
    2. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hey we might even see doom III/ hl2 being released!

  2. Re:Cold vs Cancer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm pretty sure nobody would have thought of doing that.

  3. Speaking of.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...My Nuts hurt me from paying for Christmas presents. God love the Empire.

  4. Re:-3 =3 ==3 ===3 PENIS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    8===D - - - (_(__)=>
    My comment looks too much like ascii art.

  5. GWB's ace in the hole in 2004 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It's getting more and more evident that Saddam was captured a long time ago and was presented to the public last Sunday only to boost the ratings of the president. Why would the administration present Saddam only 14 hours after the capture when they could have held him in an undisclosed location and probe his mind and body in every way imaginable to squeeze out every bit of useful information. Now he's clearly a spent shell of a man and can be thrown to mercy of the mob in a "fair trial".

    This leads us to the next question. Where is Osama bin Laden? Most likely Osama has also been captured a long time ago and undergone the same harsh mind- and bodybreaking interrogation as Saddam. Now it's only a question of timing: when will the news hit the Democrats the hardest? Before the elections, of course.

    Parading Osama in front of the crowds a few months before the elections will guarantee four more years for the moron-in-chief and his neocon-nazis.

  6. Re:I thoroughly hope this succeeds by corbettw · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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    God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
  7. Re:Obligatory by BorgDrone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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