Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab

mattr writes "Korean scientists are the first in the world to selectively age off and kill human cancer cells, by injecting a gene that suppresses telomerase, a cancer-specific enzyme that normally makes cancer cells immortal by protecting the telomere tips of their chromosomes. The telomere length modulation mechanism was found by two scientists from Yonsei University and colleagues at U. Central Florida, and is reported in the April 1 issue of Genes and Development magazine."

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Re:who gets credit

[DAldredge]

Do you have any proof of this or are you just talking out your ass?

Don't use words you don't even understand, lemming

[Moraelin]

"Fundamentalism" has nothing to do with it. Get a dictionary some day. Might do you a lot of good.

There is really nothing either religious or political involved, so "fundamentalistic" _what_?

I _am_ however firmly against fucktards who think that parenting ends with getting someone impregnated. That they did their job, proved their potence to the world, now it's someone else's job to sort it out.

I don't even care if it's about medication, or because they perceive that overtime/TV/whatever is more important than the child. That's just not what parenting is about. Getting someone impregnated is the _easy_ part. Actually caring for the child is the important part.

"If his spouse, girlfriend or whoever has declared to carry out that child"

A good point and exactly the point that I doubt there.

_If_ his wife/gf/whatever, of her own free will, and without any pressure, decided she wants to be a single mother, sure. It's her body, her life, her decision.

However, I doubt that that's the way it's gonna go. The kind of fucktard that will even throw his own life away, because by jove he must have offspring at all cost, I somehow doubt that he'll let that spouse/gf/whatever reach her _own_ decision there.