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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."
The perfect aging drug! Now I can look older and act younger!
I think I'm gonna have a cigarette now.
Hey! We cured cancer! No, just messin' with yah... april fools!
Yeah, but it actually throws the works into reverse. It's great for the first few years, but then you have to go through toilet training in reverse.
And let's just say it goes downhill from there.
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The University of Central Florida doesn't get any credit because we don't have a good football team, but this is the third /. piece featuring the school in the past six months. How's for some nerd credit?
The real trick would be to figure out how to hold the human body at the point of equilibrium for 18 to 21 years of age.
Never mind that. Then we couldn't legally get beer. 8-)
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Do you have any proof of this or are you just talking out your ass?
You must be new here.
but then you have to go through toilet training in reverse.
This happens anyway. Haven't you heard of adult diapers?
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
Eh, in Korea, only old cancer cells get credit.
1) Eat more charred foods
2) Use the cell phone handset a lot more
3) picnic under high tension wires often
4) cheap cigarettes from Canada
5) Use more liquids ending in -ene, -ide
6) Have more food colouring parties
7) Break out that Roentgen tube lying in the attic, make some cool photos.
8) Work with small fibres and dusts as often as possible.
Yep, now I can really break loose...
Hedley
Fuck low UID slashdotters.
The more you know, the less you understand.
What they don't tell you about that study is that the rats were also habitual smokers, sad really...
"reported in the April 1 issue of Genes and Development"
I just hope it's not some cruel April Fools joke...
Get your torrents...
Yup, I can see it now:
Aide: Sir, have you looked at the bill on genetic research?
Shrub: Yes, and I vetoed it.
Aide: Um, why sir? It would have cured cancer?
Shrub: It said a side-effect of the research might be immorality, and I won't STAND for that!
Aide: (slaps forehead) No sir, it didn't say immorality, it said immortality.
Shrub: (looks confused)
I beg to differ. He gets modded down for not following group think, but he does come up with some good stuff.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
In Korea, only old cancer cells die.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
You would think that would be the case, but those of us with id's like say... mine, have groupies who follow us around offering us sexual favors constantly.
"...he banned any weapons research that was expected to take more than two years to deliver a weapon (probably on the theory that he would control the world in less than two years). American research is falling into this second trap."
I agree. As an American, I think it is pragmatic to think it will take at least 5 years to take over the world. I put forward that we should all sign an online petition to congress to get them to fund weapons that will put out in at least 5 years, instead of the current two year limit.
This has many advantages, not the least of which are massive robotic mechs that we can build in conjunction with our allies in Japan.
But sharks do get cancer
And if, supposing dharks didn't get cancer, what would cartilage have to do with it?
And, since you're talking about homeopaths, why would pills that don't contain any cartilage, but are supposed to somehow remember that there was once some cartilage in the mixing vat help?