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Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure
Evoluder writes to tell us that scientists at Wake Forest University have found a "cancer resistant mouse" and bred it to make a small army of cancer resistant mice. When transplanting blood from one of these mice to a normal non-resistant mouse they are able to provide "lifetime cancer protection". From the article: "The cancer-resistant mice all stem from a single mouse discovered in 1999. "The cancer resistance trait so far has been passed to more than 2,000 descendants in 14 generations," said Cui, associate professor of pathology. It also has been bred into three additional mouse strains. About 40 percent of each generation inherits the protection from cancer."
I, for one, am horrified at what they are doing to these poor little mice! Injecting them with cancerous cells, just to see if new white blood cells will fight the cancer? When does it stop! Think about the poor little things, squeaking, squeaking, flailing their little limbs, their cute little whiskers all a-quiver. And then they get stuck with *another* needle, in their stomach! I can tell you from experience, that ain't comfortable! [/sarcasm]
Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
In the defense of religion, you have to decide what to do somehow. Science only gives options and explanations, whereas religion gives a system by which an option might be selected and an analysis utilized. If we completely lost all forms of assertive belief, human society would stop just as surely as if we lost all forms of logical analysis and empirical thought.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~