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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
...welcome our cancer resistant mice overlords
There goes another perfectly good form of population control
KILL
ALL
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GO IRAN!
will skip the line you expected here and get right to the point: INVINCIBLE MICE ARMY?!?
Would be nice if they could do a "diff" between the new cancer-resistant white blood cells & normal ones. Find out what makes the new ones better, and then do more of it. Or extract the benefits, if that's reasonable once the cause is understood.
Cancer Mouse... duh duh dah!
Will this cure cancer in rats? Because, EVERYTHING causes cancer in rats!
I know humans have several blood types and generally you have to follow rules as to which blood type you can give to another blood type person. ("O" type can donate to "B" type person, but not visa-versa)
Do mice have this issue? Or is this irrelevant because we are talking about white blood cells and not whole blood
I know, I know...wikipedia is my friend...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type
I'll take a carton of cigarettes and a shot of mouse blood.
Is it wireless?
Please stop entering code 2,2,7,6,6,4
Scientists should be wary about trying to genetically modify humans with the knowledge gained from these experiments.
Thinking of a "cancer gene" is misleading. Imagine a net of rubber bands all knotted togethor. Changing one gene will "stretch a rubber band" differently possibly affect all the other aspects of the organism, often unpredictably.
This cancer gene could be the one that also gives humans a soul. We can't tell with a mouse, of course, because they only speak in pips and squeaks, but scientists should know all the risks involved with creating such a possible genetic enhancement.
Seems like these mice are dupe resistant too.
Pfffft. What we really need is some mouse-resistant cancer.
This guy's the limit!
Viva la resistance!
Stop rejecting my good stories. Just because they're not about the latest Linux kernel it doesn't mean they aren't worthy.
e.g. one that just got rejected: Spy on your neighbours through digital TV. BBC News - check. Technology - check. Privacy concerns - check. Perfect Slashdot material, you would think.
Thank you.
There's hundred of guys on the internet that will now never get cancer of the ass. So I'm told...
Someone told me that if humans were meant to live forever, then God would have made us immune to cancer.
How does God know about cancer? He doesn't even smoke or play in asbestos!
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
See PNAS, vol. 103, no 20, p7753-7758. VERY interesting work.
Cool, now all we have to do is train these mice to go in and shut down the main reactor and we will all be saved, with no bad side effects or sacrificial Vulcans!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
How good is this really?
(Assuming this is true, it is a wonderful step.)
So the mouse is a cylon?
I mean, a'doy. Dr Baltar already figured this out. It cured President Rosylin's cancer, after all.
Next stage is to dress up a mouse in a really sexy outfit and post her pics to slashdot...
The media is quick to call things like this a cure. The fact remains that, with some exceptions, men are not mice. Back in the late 90s, angiogenesis inhibitors (a class of drugs that inhibit the growth of new blood vessels, needed by tumors to provide nourishment as they grow) were being tested with amazing success in mice, preventing the spread of almost every form of cancer. It was hailed as the coming cure.
Some angiogenesis inhibitors have proven to be very helpful in treating cancer, but they are not a cure. They aren't nearly as effective in humans as they were in mice, it appears.
I'm always skeptical (and you should be too), when you hear about something that isn't even in clinical trials, as a possible cure for some disease people get. People simply don't respond the same as mice.
That said, this does look promising as an avenue, but I wouldn't go out and take up smoking just yet.
Okay, let's think about this for a second.
A cancerous cell is one that doesn't know when to quit. It is outside the normal cell cycle, and not listening to every cell's built in death trigger. Forvige my lack of specific biology terminalogy.
So these mice are "cancer-resistant"? When exposed to carcenigous, do they ignore them? When exposed to massive ammounts of UV light, do they tan but not burn? Do they burn but not get skin cancer? If you clogged thier lungs with cig smoke, would they develop a cough but not cancer?
How the frak does this work? Are the little mice cells just really tuned into thier death trigger? When a cell mutates enough that it doesn't listen to it's death trigger, it is a cancer. Are these mice just impervious to cell mutation?
If so, wouldn't that make them an evolutionary dead end? Cancer, while bad, is a by-product of evolution. If cells weren't allowed to ever mutate again, would that spell the end of mice evolution? And if we impart that "cancer-immunity" to we humans, would that spell the end of evolution?
By all means, someone correct what I have wrong. Biology was never my strong suit. (Nor is spelling)
There are no gods but ourselves.
For something other than losing at basketball...
"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.
When you smoke the right shit, you can talk with God. Take more of it and it feels like you ARE god.
The next day, you feel like your tongue is made of asbestos, though.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I for one welcome our new cancer resistant rat overlords.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Sad thing is that it still isn't transferrable to humans. From what I've read, it also works for pigs, rats and mice, but not humans.. Oh well, give or take another 20 years, I've got time...
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
The cancer resistant mouse is the normal one and all the others are the mutants?
I for one welcome our new Immortal Mice Overlords...
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
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
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
welcome our cancer-resistant rodent overlords.
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.
so far has been passed to more than 2,000 descendants in 14 generations
So... a cancer resistant male would be considered a premier breeding stallion...
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.
Telomerase structure has been identified.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4698264.stm
that you gain their anticancer properties by eating them so I start seeing nutty stuff like Mousicles and Xtra-Kreemy Mac-n-Mice in the health food aisle.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
This only end up producing cancer resistant mouse resistant cancer.
What?
Change your diaper and then go to Digg.
It is there that you will discover that your uninspired drivel will be tried by a jury of your peers. I hope that also sounds like an affront to the intelligence of Digg users - It is.
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Ha! So now I bet Lennie couldn't kill all those mice!
So how much do you think they will sell it for? Will it only be available to Republican families? I presume we won't let the French have it ...
No, wireless non-cancerous mice are in the next lab over: Behavioral Studies.
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This is a rather remarkable finding, though very fortuitous (as many great discoveries are). The "cancer resistance" trait is heritable, so it can ultimately be mapped to specific gene(s) -- that is the most exciting finding, along with the fact that the physiological effect has already been mapped to white blood cells. This way, when the gene is discovered, both the mechanism of cancer resistance and the genetic basis for it will be readily discernable.
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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]
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"The cancer resistance trait so far has been passed to more than 2,000 descendants in 14 generations,"
So that is all the Brain had to do.... find a cure for cancer.
"... able to provide "lifetime cancer protection"."
The article fails to mention that 'lifetime' can be greatly affected by the neighboring reptile obesity study.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Wow, who knew the bus to hell had such comfy chairs.
Because if they did, wouldn't that just make life so easy. Either way, this is a fantastic step in the right direction. It looks like nature was able to do what our science has yet to accomplish.
Go ahead and call me unreliable; reliable is just a synonym for predictable.
So that's the secret method of transferring the immunity to humans!
Good news, it's a suppository!
Cancer?!
Here I thought all I had to worry about was carpel tunnel.....
They'll be delivered as a suppository, though they'll make a bit of a squeaking sound as they are inserted in your ass.
en tee
From the article: "The next step is to understand the exact way in which it works, and perhaps eventually design such a therapy for humans." Gee... he's really going out on a long speculative limb, there. I suppose he thinks that curing cancer easily, quickly, cheaply and without debilitating side-effects may have some practical application. Well, that's why they pay scientists the big bucks, for that vision thing.
I don't expect to SEE any. Research and "Life sustaining" drugs are WAY too profitable for anyone to cure the really major illnesses.
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As exciting as this sounds, it's probably not going to lead to a pancea for cancer in humans. We've cured cancer in mice several times over since the 70s. The problem is that mice are a short-lived species that has very little innate resistance to cancer. After all evolution is not going to have an organism waste lots of energy repairing DNA damage and having pools of immune cells constantly checking for mutant cells if the organism is just going to get eaten by a cat in an average of a few months after birth.
By contrast, humans are a very long-lived animal species. Our bodies already have a large number of cancer-prevention mechanisms that simply aren't present in mice. Take for example telomeres. The telomere ends of chromosomes shorten with each cell replication other than gamete formation. All your cells have what is known as the 'Hayflick limit' where the telomeres get too short, the chromosomes become unstable and the cell dies. Although this mechanism is probably one of the contributors to human aging, it also does a very good job of eliminating many tumors. Most of your tumors hit the Hayflick limit and simply die off before they can present a threat to you. Virtually all human cancers either mutate so as to find a way to reactivate the telomerase that re-lengthens the telomeres or manages to find a way to preserve their telomere ends through chromosomal recombination. Mouse cells, by way of contrast, have huge telomeres which never get short enough to act as this sort of cancer-prevention mechanism.
As a result human tumors are much 'tougher' than mouse tumors. The average mouse tumor wouldn't stand a chance in a human. Any tumor that manages to thrive in a human has had to jump a host of hurdles and checkpoints that no mouse tumor does in order to simply survive.
The problem is that many of these cancer cures in mice already exist in humans naturally. Some of these cures (such as this one, most likely) are simply reactivation of vestigial anti-cancer systems in the mice that have atrophied for the above-mentioned reasons. Others are cancer treatments that attack weaknesses in mouse tumors that are simply irrelevant in human ones. I suspect that this super mouse is simply being more human with regards to cancer and that the end result is that we'll rediscover something our bodies already do.
"The transplanted white blood cells not only killed existing cancers, but also protected normal mice from what should have been lethal doses of highly aggressive new cancers. " So we need to find the possible human running around who has the same genetic WBC born abilities of these mice? Maybe start injecting cancer patients with WBC's of other random ultra healthy humans until we find similar effects? If it doesn't cause ill side effects then I don't see why not try?
For some reason I refuse to use either spell check or the spacebar properly.
Now finally we'll see a decrease in senseless mouse deaths.
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Only part of it and only for tetrahymena, not human. It is much more difficult for a number of reasons.
This is brilliant thinking, truly brilliant...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
MjM
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
...it's probably half Cylon.
No one got beat up more often than the mimes of the old west!
...doncha think?
Actually, I hope these mice are TIGHTLY controlled. If they do get out into the general laboratory mouse population, it could really skew the results of many tests that may later be performed on humans.
Because it's just that, a belief. Everything I've seen, all evidence points to "no". Now, I can't PROVE there isn't a God. Another matter entirely.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
Telomerase is huge in oncology. Basically, there are two steps involved in generating cancer:
1) Transformation, in which the cell begins to replicate outside of normal controls. You can get a tumour this way, but without step 2, the tumour doesn't get very far before the cells start to grow quiescent - they lose vitality and stop dividing.
The reason they slow down is that their telomeres have degraded. Telomeres are long stretches of "junk" DNA at the end of each chromosome. Every cycle of DNA replication erodes the end of each chromosome (due to the way replication works at the molecular level). Telomeres absorb this loss without causing erosion of active genes.
A human zygote cell is only capable of ~80-90 cell divisions before these telomeres have fully eroded and active genes are affected. Fortunately, 2^90 is plenty of cells for an adult with a typical lifespan.
2) Activation of telomerase. The purpose of telomerase seems to be to refresh telomeres in the genes of sperm/egg cells to start the cycle fresh for a new human. In "successful" cancer, telomerase permits the cancerous cells to reproduce indefinitely by maintaining telomeres.
*wistful sigh* Ah, the PhD I never did. Then again, I can afford to feed my family in my current career...
Anyone who studies diseases will tell you that all diseases evolve and mutate. A few years here and there of longer life then man's complatencey kicks in then boom another strain hits and you have a new type of the same old cancer and it is a "New killer". Diseases are in and a part of the evolutionary pool too. Drax Wraith
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.
>> Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure
Just dissolve one under your tongue every 8 hours...
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There are two different ways to do this.
The first is by expression profiling- looking at difference in gene expression. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_chip This will actually give you a readout of how the two cells are different in terms of how they use different genes to express their differences.
The other is positional cloning. You basically breed a resistant mouse with a non-resistant mouse to get an F1 intercross. If you are dealing with inbred mice, these are genetically identical but each chromosome is different- one from mom and one from dad. You breed this generation with eachother to get an F2 intercross and then phenotype the offspring (are they resistant to cancer?) and then genotype them (what are their genetic differences?). Genes undergo semi-random reassortment through cross-over events and all offspring in the F2 incross have a random sprinkling of genes from mom and dad. You then do linkage analysis to find out which genetic differences are most closely linked to the phenotype you are looking for.
That was awesome... If I had 'em I'd do it myself, but I seem to have misplaced them...somebody mod parent up!
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.
Do these reports suggest that cancer cells really do not grow "in a vacuum," but are affected by control mechanisms that already exist in the body? Does cancer reach a detectable size because these controls have failed? If so, could such controls be identified, and enhanced in patients to provide new therapies? In fact, how do cancer cells actually "succeed" in patients? Do they actively inhibit protective processes that ordinarily would prevent cancer? Do cancers occur continuously during our lifetimes, yet are eliminated by internal mechanisms so that they are never seen? http://www1.wfubmc.edu/cancer/research/mice/summar y.htm
Guess it's a blessing and a curse.
You'll never die of cancer, on the other hand you and your offspring are destined to be cut up and analysed.....
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Try telling that to James Brown
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What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
the mouses resistance to overdosing on saccharin?
Being a current cancer patient (Hodgkin's), this research looks very promising. Let's hope someone fast tracks this research with some good money and facilities. Chemo sucks!
Really wish everyone would stop using the I, for one cliche.
Sheesh...
... and free them all! (sarcasm in case explanation is needed)
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... and thought, "Please let it include a scroll wheel..."?
Just because it can't be explained doesn't mean it isn't true. Science fits into reality... not the other way around.
Here is the off-topic, off-color reference
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Fortunately, 2^90 is plenty of cells for an adult with a typical lifespan.
2^90 cells would form a sphere of flesh about 15 kilometers across, or roughly equivalent to the entire biomass of planet earth. Now that's a lot of deep dish pizzas.
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
The data is still useful, however, as it allows us to identify wether the systems that we've theorized the human body uses to combat cancer actually do so, and gives us the opportunity to fiddle with such systems without injecting experimental chemicals into our next-door neighbor. At the least, it provides confirmation regarding the reliability of previous data.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
...cancer resistant BLOOOOOOOD!
Damn, it'll be cool being a blood zombie, hunting down the cancer resistant and taking their blood.
I drank what? -- Socrates
1. How many buttons?
2. Is it USB Compatible?
3. Are there Linux drivers for it?
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
If we're able to breed mice that react to cancer more like people, it will be much easier to study the sorts of cancers people suffer from.
Radiation poisoning will kill you dead with or without cancer resistance.
The action of gamma rays on animal cells is akin to microwave cooking- it heats the cell from the inside out. Not only does this damage DNA, it plain old just kills the cell outright.
Cancer is only a factor if the cell survives exposure.
3. A cancer needs to avoid detection by the immune system. It wasn't well known until "The Boy in the Bubble" died, that the immune system normally kills many cancers. This step is important, since the article mentions white blood cells as the key.
Mouser Brand cigarettes will be a huge success. The only brand with a Surgeon General's Recommendation: "Mouser Brand cigarettes have been proven to fight cancer in a lab."
You're right on a lot of details, but you seem to misunderstand the relationship between "Hayflick's Limit" and the longevity of a species.
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Read around the higlighted area of this page:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:9GiRpofmvSgJ:
I may be naturally more resistant to cancer than most people, because my Immune system is extra aggressive, with some minor side effects:
My immune system thinks my skin and sinovial(sp?) membranes are cancerous; so they attack, causing psioriasis and arthritis; other possible areas it can attack are, my eyes causing blindness, serotonin (causing migraines, but my doctor thinks it's blood sugar related), my liver (causing death), nerve sheaths (my pain scale goes to 11)...
But, I probably won't die of Cancer... that is, unless my immune suppressent drugs weaken my immune system so much that it can't fight back at all. I've already had two life-threatening infections, and I've gone into shock twice.
other pluses: when I get a cold or flu, I feel better, because my immune system is fighting a real threat (I think), and if I'm not able to work because of it, I get $1500 a month from the government!, unfortunetly, it took the SSA 5 years to process my claim, by which time I've returned to work.
I hear Sharks don't get cancer; probably because their genes are stable.
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will develop cancer - not?
Seems like the old saw has been turned on its head.
Oh well, what the hell...
Richard Gere for curing prostate cancer! *hides in shame*
but some people don't like growing a tail and whiskers... ...do I smell cheese?
Oh well, what the hell...
Is a Slashdot-resistant server...
There are many copies.
And they have a plan.
Doesn't anyone question where this first mouse came from in 1999? With all the testing done on laboratory mice, isn't it entirely possible that scientists created Mighty Mouse in the first place? But they don't say anything about it's origin. These mice are raised in a controlled environment so that they are all a constant in future test cases. And if one of the parents also carried the gene, then wouldn't more offspring also carry it? Or.... did something happen to this particular mouse that scientists don't care to mention at this point in time? Maybe i'm taking an evolutionistic approach to this. Maybe this mouse is really a messiah, born from a virgin mother in a hay loft to save mouse-kind. We know it can already stop cancer, all it needs to do now is turn water into cheese!
...how do they get all those mice to smoke tiny cigarettes?
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I doubt that a 15km sphere is the "entire biomass". There is probably more than that in nematodes alone.
I remember seeing a program on TV quite a few years ago about a woman who got cancer and the cancer went into remission then it came back and then it went away. It kept doing this in cycles. She appeared to be immune in that she didn't die. I think she wanted them to study it but they told her that she'd become a lab rat and that's no way to live so she didn't do it. Still I find it hard to believe that the impact in someone's lifestyle would be that great. Anyway, maybe it was a hoax but I think it was on Dateline NBC or something of that nature.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
I bow down in shame.
Facinating results with potentially huge implications, but according to the New York Times (login required, use BugMeNot), none of the results from this lab have been replicated elsewhere; despite discovering this cancer-resistant mouse three years ago, they haven't shared it with any other lab, so both papers on the topic are from the same people/lab. Not that I don't believe them, but a discovery like this which is so unlike anything seen before clearly needs to be independently verified.
Shades of "The Immortal" http://imdb.com/title/tt0064475/. And, yes, I'm old enough to remember watching it when it was first broadcast.
We can't really do the same thing to humans, a minor issue of ethics stopping us.
Don't worry, within a couple years or so Our Boys in Iraq will be working on it.
*ducks*
I then went to the other parts of http://www.senescence.info/ and found more great info. Thanks.
Good thing we don't retain the old cells... my odd neighbor excluded, of course.
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It's far too profitable to irradiate and sell poisons (in the form of chemo) to cancer patients than it is to offer a cure.
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The Immortal
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064475/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065303/
I doubt that a 15km sphere is the "entire biomass". There is probably more than that in nematodes alone.
According to Google Answers, the total biomass of Earth is 1.25 trillion metric tons. Assuming 1 ton / m^3, this works out to a sphere about 14km across. Next time use math, not intuition.
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
From the article:
For one thing, if a virulent tumor was planted in a normal mouse's back, and the transplanted white blood cells were injected into the mouse's abdomen, the cells still found the cancer without harming normal cells. The kind of cancer didn't seem to matter.
This article should be titled, "Reasearchers Introduced to Normal Immune Function." How do they think non-super t-cells find tumors, by hiring a tour guide?
The implication is that until this super mouse came along, nobody had any cancer resistance at all. And yet I'd venture to say, cancer and viruses are the two things immune systems handle best.
This system forms a first line of host defense against pathogens, such as bacteria.
Bacteria, lol. As if.
If they reproduce the most, then they are the fittest, most suited to their environment.
We are evolving. You just don't like the direction.
Well, what are you going to do about it? Create a society where smart, good-natured people have the most kids?
Good luck.
Over all these years we've mainly been discovering cures for rats and mice. I'm looking for volunteers male and female between 18 and 26 willing to have their spinal cord irradiated with an "moderate" amount of X-rays. Mail me if you're interested.
If scientist have figured out how to kill cancers now and are able to create them (if they cant create them then they cant test that they've killed them.
Does this mean that they could give someone cancer and then eventually, then kill cancer cells so they never grow too much, but as cancer cells dont naturally die, if their growth is controlled, does this mean we could really cure death from old age?
If they manage to cure all known illnesses and death by aging, all we'd have to worry about is death from injury.
I love the smell of burning karma in the morning...
It was another accidental discovery of a mouse that spontaneously developed special abilities.
I really want to see a cancer-resistant regenerating super-mouse, especially if an injection of mouse serum confers these powers on ordinary people, er, mice.
The description of this research is completely misleading. These mice are not resistant to cancer in general - they (direct quote from the paper) "possess a unique autosomal dominant trait that allows them to survive challenges with aggressive mouse cancer cells". This is an important distinction. These mice have been bred to withstand implantation with specific foreign tumour cells (called S180) - basically a laboratory model for tumour growth. Nowhere does it say that these mice are more or less susceptible to developing cancer the old fashioned way by exposure to carcinogens, etc. If you blasted these bad boys with UV or gave them a good dose of tobacco smoke, they would still get cancer. Shoot them up with S180 tumour cells, and they won't take. Big leap from one to the other - but there's no chasm of logic that the media can't cross for a good headline.
I guess I watched too much TV as a kid, though I only saw one episode or so of this one...
"Run for your Life", starring Ben Gazarra. Probably late 60's.
Quick synopsis: There's something funny about his blood - a transfusion form him makes people get better. There's some old rich guy who's kind of sickly, and wants to keep on living. So he wants to capture the character played by Ben Gazarra and keep him on hand for blood tranfusions. Meanwhile, Ben's character doesn't like this idea, so he's constantly on the run. There may have been subplots about others interested in his blood, his basic desire to do good balanced against freedom, etc.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
You're right. It was a troll. Sorry, and thanks for responding honestly.
OMFG... I think there are mice Nazis running the science places all over the world! WE ARE SOON TO HAVE A MASTER MOUSE!!! How long until they learn to get out of their cages and poison the scientists researching them? DARWIN! :P