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Cure for Cancer?
Ensign Regis writes "MIT's Technology Review is reporting that an Israeli institute has developed "molecular-sized" computers that can detect and eradicate cancer cells. Right now, it only works in test tubes, but it may soon be developed for humans."
Interesting, first a cure for HIV, and now one for Cancer, what's next, the cure for 1337 5p34k?
Cancer is one of the largest health problems in the near future, thow we have seen a lot of information about "new inventions" solving stuff.....project david....huh huh. Great it its true!
Given the perversion of mankind, let's all hope they use it for medicine and not for politics.
Fark's gonna need a new cliche for studies of the useless
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While it is great that this may one day cure cancer in people, I think it's fantastic that in the mean time we can keep our test-tubes healthy.
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If I were dying of cancer in 5 years, and I weren't likely to make it another 5-10 years for this treatment to be deemed "safe and effective", could I try it at my own expense?
My uncle died of inoperative throat cancer. About a year afterwards, I read about a treatment that had just been approved by the FDA using radiation and finely controlled robots that could have saved his life. It was a long shot, but I don't think that he ever had the chance to consider it.
I know that this opens the door to all sorts of criminals, but it could save a lot of lives. Just a modest rant.
The world will not get better through technology. We must seek to be better people.
Hmmm...Small machines in your bloodstream killing cancer cells. I wonder how long it will be before there are small machines in your bloodstream killing ALL your cells.
after all if that wanker bush and his cronies get to stay in office and subsequently so do the lobbyiests who the fuck thinks that unless medical services are outsourced we're ever gonna be able to pay for this kind of treatment.
come on, at this point we're not allowed to purchase drugs in canada because they're 'cheap and unreliable'. so who thinks that utopia is galloping over the horizon?
Having a general purpose mechanism for killing cells with specific, detectable differences is nice, but it isn't exactly new: most of cancer therapy is based on that premise. This particular mechanism sounds like it may give you more specificity, but there are already lots of ways of targeting cancer cells with high specificity.
The problem is that the more complex you make the molecules that kill cancer cells, the harder they get to deliver. You can think of RNAi as a simpler version of this "molecular computer", something that would probably already help in many cancers, and we can't even deliver something that comparatively simple reliably.
Weizmann Institute of Science disovers Cure for Cancer.
+1 happy citizen in each Israeli town.
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Even though i'm excited about the prospect of curing cancer, this type of technology scares me. What is out there stopping people from modifying these little computers to kill say.... white blood cells? It seems to me that this is a very possible negative side affect of this type of technology. Do my worries have any factual basis?
The ONLY thing that will remotely cure cancer is to get rid of the environmental concerns that are causing it in the first place. Each and every one of us is sucking in carcinogenic dioxins into our body every second of every day. That's just for starters. Meybe if we started treating the causes, not just the symptoms, we might start getting somewhere.
Suppose this nanomachine could tell you that you would be dead from cancer in 10 years. Would you want to know? I mean, if it's incurable, wouldn't it be better to find out just before you died, rather than having to worry about it for 10 years?
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
Problem is of course that goverments are rightly worried about experimenting on humans. So such trials are always small and need very strict guidelines for wich candidates are accepted. They don't want candidates who have multiple diseases since then they wouldn't know what is curing wich and wich other medicines are interering.
The bad news in your case is that there would hardly be a shortage of patients for who this the last change.
As someone who lost his mother to cancer at a young age. Applause to the researchers. Hope they have the magic bullet to get rid of cancer.
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Lets face it everyone knows they are going to die and if they are really smart they even know it might be at any moment.
The people I have been with that learned they had a terminal illness went ofcourse through all kinds of emotions. Despair, anger, acceptance, apathy. And it ain't in stages either. Especially during critical moments, like when a last hope cure doesn't work out, they can change between emotions and even have emotions directly oposite.
But mostly it brings a sort of peace. The worst has happened. Parents get mostly worried with their kids. They seem to put in extra effort to make sure the kids can handle themselves afterwards. Kids of course have it harder as most of a kids live is in reality spend studying for later when of course for kids with a terminal illness there is no later. Strangely enough the kids can mostly deal with it in their own way. They have the most difficulty in dealing with adults who can't deal with it.
So the answer I think is probably that most would prefer to know. Let me ask it in reverse. Would you as a parent with two kids etc learn right now that 1 min from now you are going to be dead? No change to make any arrangements, say a last goodbye, make sure your last words with someone weren't a fight?
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Cowboy Neal did this April 29th.
DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease
i know how hard it must be to search the Old Stories link for something as obvious as 'cancer'...
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"molecular-sized" computers that can detect and eradicate cancer cells....
(queue up the snare drum:)
I might try to wait for the first fix pack. (bang!)
And I hope it has passive cooling - those fans can be painful. (ka-boom)
And what about DRM? Will the drug companies continue to own the product so that sharing bodily fluids is punishable under the copyright act?
There is so much that medicine has to learn from our industry!!
The greater understanding we gain about genetic engineering, the more amazing things we can do. Eventually being experianced enough to create something more powerful than our own brain. We do in fact operate on a quaternary system, more efficiant than binary.
One thing's for sure: all those people who got cancer were born some years before that. In fact, once you're born you're pretty much guaranteed to die at some point. So the answer is clear: stop all births!
the guy who invented the camera flash and strobe light read about some scientists who came up with a cure for hiv, and was nominated by a mexican hospital for the nobel prize for telling others about it.
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Researchers from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, reported that a small amount of electric current, flowing through a dish of fluid containing the HIV virus, reduced its ability to infect cells by up to 95%! The electric current used was very small, (only 50-100 microamperes) which is safe for blood cells but harmful to viruses and other pathogens. The announcement was reported in Science News, Longevity Magazine, and the Houston Post. Unfortunately, further media coverage of this breakthrough was suppressed.
The scientists who came up with the idea - Dr. Kaali and Peter Schwolsky created a patent, #5188738, which describes a blood electrification device as being able to: "provide electric current flow through the blood sufficient to render the bacteria, virus, parasites and/or fungus ineffective to infect or affect normally healthy cells while maintaining the biological usefulness of the blood or other fluids."
Anyone heard of Bob Beck, or tried the beck protocol for cancer, lyme disease, hiv, or other hard to cure disease?
http://www.sharinghealth.com has some info on it, or of course a google search: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i
I'm curious if people have tried this for cancer, lyme disease, etc. I am currently using it to treat lyme disease, and feel better already.
Maybe by then I can affford health insurance.
Evolution has been trying to get around cancer for millions of years. It's not some new problem caused by idustrialization. The sun causes cancer, backgrond radiation causes cancer, bread causes cancer, if you stay alive for long enough you're eventually going to get cancer.