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Listening for Cancer Cells
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, it's now possible to detect skin cancer cells present in blood samples by listening to the sound of melanoma cells. The scientists have used a method named photoacoustic detection, which uses a laser to make cells vibrate and ultrasound techniques to pick the sound of cancerous cells. This technique is so precise that it's possible to identify the spread of cancer even if there are only ten melanoma cells in a blood sample. Still, large clinical tests must be done before this method can be widely used."
So the editors won't listen to the readers to stop posting Roland's crap, can we at least have a feature to filter him and other annoying submitters out please?
Suck it Roland. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
This one's got the Rockinpneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flue
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
they just tell the RIAA that they are infringing on their copyrighted "sound of cancer" Clean them up real quick :P
Monstar L
I don't like the sound of this; making light of an otherwise dead issue.
Have you read my journal today?
"Dictator Flakes. They WILL be delicious."
It only works on melanoma (skin cancer) cells, which answers the question of "How do they know where to shine the laser?".
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Well, what if they could find a dye that responded in the same fashion.
Suddenly, the technique could apply to a range of cancers.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Hello darkness my old friend,
I've come to hear from you again.
Because a paitent softly weeping,
Wants to know if cancer is creeping.
Is the sound of the cancer coming from her brain?
Will it remain?
As we listen... to the sounds... of cancer.
I've got to say, this is a pretty amazing idea. Plus it would make detecting some cancers an easy part of your yearly physical.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
From TFA:
Because of melanin, melanoma is the only type of cancer whose cells will strongly absorb all wavelengths of light, emitting ultrasounds that stand out from those of other cells.
How difficult would it be to modify melanin to produce electricity (or even sugar) from light? It sounds like it has a much wider absorption spectrum than chlorophyll, which could make things very interesting for genetic engineering and/or solar power!
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
Do they make little screaming noises or evil laughing noises?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
unfortunalely the lasers used actually cause skin cancer in the process
I'm melanoma hunting hehehehe
I don't care if Roland Piquepaille is a shameless whore, trying to drive hits and business to his website (although I didn't see any of that in this article). In this instance, he has posted an article which is reasonably intelligent, reasonably presented (clicked through thirty pages of NYT to read thirty paragraphs of a story lately?), and likely to be of interest to /.'s target audience. What's your major malfunction, maggot?
Then again, I suppose the name "anonymous coward" says it all, eh?
will the many new amazing and exciting breakthroughs in laser usefulness never cease!?! Is there anything they can't do? Bravo, good sirs, Bravo!
I hope they find something small and easy enough that can be used as a home kit for regular checkups
I know the world exists because I exist.
Apparently cancer cells sound very much like the Starland Vocal Band and can frequently be heard singing "Afternoon Delight" while carrying out their destructive task.
Which is just one more good reason to eradicate cancer once and for all...
So I heard you have cancer!
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I realize that the summary doesn't link to Roland's blog this time, but any Firefox users that want to hide his submissions can use this Greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738
You'll need to use cancer cells for your photolysis tank. Ordinary cells will die.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
The difference between this article and the studies of Raymond Royal Rife is those are researches that are discussing their speculation on being able to detect cancer cells, while the Raymond Royal Rife produced actual equipment that disrupts and unmaterialized foreign matter by a unique resonant frequency of energy.
I heartily thank Roland Piquepaille for inducing the post of that article, because I have posted similar subject matter and consistently denied it appearing. Look into an effect discovered by a scientist known as Raymond Rife; he is prominantly known as the first man to view a virus under a microscope, and his mode of that microscope is known to have credited him as the inventor of the first electron microscope.
The truth of the matter is all matter has a resonant frequency. The experimentation and invention of Raymond Royal Rife was concluded that the contagen of invading foreign matter in the flesh of a man can be reduced by finding the resonant frequency and causing the matter to violently materialize until it no longer functions. The same effect also can be used to "train" the Immune System of a host.
Much of the independent radio networks, primarily accessible on internet service streaming, are actively advertising these and related inventions. Try a stream from FIRSTAMENDMENTRADIO.COM or NFOWARS.NET, and one will eventually occur at least every hour.
without prejudice
As a basal cell carcinoma patient I stand a greater risk of developing a melanoma in the future. It is nice to hear that new tests and treatments are being developed which could save lives.
I am paying for a lifetime of fun in the sun. This month I had Mohs surgery for a deep rooted basal cell cancer on my nose, which left a nice crater, and will receive skin grafts in a few weeks to make me handsome again. But this is a cake walk compared to melanoma.
Protect your skin.
If it can make cancer cells vibrate and the rest not.. can a vibration strong enough kill them?
There was an allegedly "quack" treatment of cancer and bacteria revolving around this technique several decades ago.
Now it suddenly resurfaces... You can't stop science with misinformation and lawyers can you...
We will find that almost everyone over forty has enough cancer cells that the detection is meaningless. The real question is, "why do some people's cancer cells replicate at high rates, causing what we call cancer?'
Not a joke. I saw a documentary on this; was on BBC/SBS/ABC(*) or something like that. (*=Not the Right-wing Pro-war Disney one :-|)
They trained dogs to sniff urine to detect protstate cancer. It worked! Encountered a lot of institution resistance, but several scientists tried it and finally got a paper published on it.
Dogs have an awesome sense of smell; big noses and more brainpower devoted to it than the naked apes. "Humans can smell a spaghetti sauce. Dogs can smell the hundreds of compounds within it"
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That's the sound of vapour-ware my friend!
That's why we took out the sun. Whole batches were lost. On a serious note, cancer is no joke in any of it's variations. I had a year of chemo to treat a brain tumor. I was one of the lucky ones. Most people that get a brain tumor are only treated for 3 months. A brain tumor is a death sentence most of the time and even when the treatment works the first time, there is a 98% chance of a recurance. Tick, tick, tick,... Way to go Mizzou! Don't let all the jokesters dampen your spirits.
Ops, I shuld have usd the prevuwe but in.
So, I hear you have cancer.