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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."
but mortally susceptible to the common cold.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
will skip the line you expected here and get right to the point: INVINCIBLE MICE ARMY?!?
Will this cure cancer in rats? Because, EVERYTHING causes cancer in rats!
I'll take a carton of cigarettes and a shot of mouse blood.
I don't have a specific answer to your question, but I do know that it all tastes good to me.
There's hundred of guys on the internet that will now never get cancer of the ass. So I'm told...
It's even worse. Apparantly the cancer resistant gene was found on the 3rd button. Mac users are hosed.
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So the mouse is a cylon?
I mean, a'doy. Dr Baltar already figured this out. It cured President Rosylin's cancer, after all.
Thats a brilliant idea.
Why dont you email them and suggest it?
Reading between the lines of your analysis, I think youre saying there could be a real future application for it.
Like I dunno...curing cancer maybe?
"The cancer resistance trait so far has been passed to more than 2,000 descendants in 14 generations"
If you cure cancer, you get laid.
"can I get a transplant donor soul?"
Yes.
--Prince of Lies.
they are able to provide "lifetime cancer protection"
:)
I see, so the protection lasts right until they die... from cancer. I think Aleve can do this just as well
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All that money spent in research, and all we come up is with better mice! Plus I don't think they care too much about having cancer.
Life is about being a Phoenix!
Richard Gere is all smiles and breathing a sigh of relief.
The old warfrin poison trick still works, don't worry. Plus we could just breed an army of cancer resistant snakes to take care of the mice.
Oh...
Oh You POS
They say that if you turn up with cancer you'd be well advised to be a mouse, since the treatments work so much better.
> The old warfrin poison trick still works, don't worry. Plus we could just breed
> an army of cancer resistant snakes to take care of the mice.
> Oh...
must... resist... can't...
cancer-resistant mongooses for the snakes
cancer-resistant gorillas to rid us of the mongooses
cancer-resistant tigers to attack the gorillas
cancer-resistant elephants to take care of the tigers
and cancer-resistant mice to scare the elephants
lather, rinse, repeat
That's kinda cool.
So then we could transplant that gene and
1) Give plants souls
2) Give animals souls
3) Give bacteria souls
We already have a clearly soulless population of humans (CEO's and Lawyers) so we could isolate the difference between their genes and the rest of the populace to isolate this cancer-causing soul making gene.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
This cancer gene could be the one that also gives humans a soul.
Hmm, lessee.. no cancer in my lifetime in exchange for something I've never had any use for. Man, hard choice.
Ch-ching!
Next week, maybe I'll get to trade group sex for herpes.
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"... able to provide "lifetime cancer protection"."
The article fails to mention that 'lifetime' can be greatly affected by the neighboring reptile obesity study.
C'mon, man - everybody knows whities ain't got the soul gene.
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Do you try to pronounce this PNAS as a word or always have to spell it out? In conversation, I mean.
A better question is could this cause autoimmune problems? If it makes the immune system more sensitive could it increase you chances at Lupus, MS, and or arthritis?
That is why I really hate biology. It is too complex. We need to to do a complete redesign! We need more isolation of functions and batter fault tolerance.
Sounds like a good open source project.
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MjM
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unfortunately, it has been found that it is a special chemical in the tail that provides the resistance.
In other news, Scientist have teamed up with fashion designer Ralph Loren to test market special jeans and skirts with button-fly tail holes in the back.
Your loop is leaking scared elephants.
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Fantastic! I am very excited about this development. Will there be an ergonomic model released to prevent me from getting RSI, too? Perhaps a cancer-resistant trackball is in order.
... oh. Nevermind.
...how do they get all those mice to smoke tiny cigarettes?
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