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Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy
New submitter Guppy writes "A previous story reported widely in the media, and appearing both on Slashdot and XKCD, described a novel cancer treatment, in which a patient's own T-cells were modified using an HIV-derived vector to recognize and kill leukemia cells. In a follow-up publication (PDF), a further development is described which allows for a nearly unlimited choice of target antigens, broadening the types of malignancies potentially treatable with the technique (abstract)."
it works, biatches.
Anyone that has any kind of issue with this, please pack your things and get out of the civilised world. You don't deserve to live past 30 in a heated home with running water, electrical appliances and the ability to communicate with someone more than 20 feet away.
Science, people - it's the shizzle.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
If we can commercialize the treatment AT LOW COST, it will bring about a major new medical treatment industry, and it will allow millions of people to remain productive. That is the good part.
Hopefully it doesn't make the various worldwide retirement systems go bankrupt (though some will anyway because citizens allow governments to erect Ponzi schemes).
With fewer cancer deaths Pneumonia will take the lives of even more people, not that we will be able to do anything about that.
In other words, we are still guaranteed to die of something.
Service guaranties citizenship. Would you like to know more?
I'd rather do something else on Milla Jovovich. But whatever gets you math freaks off, I suppose.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I have small children that have been in daycare and public school for seven years. I've been exposed to every cold, flu, and communicable disease going around.
I bike to work. Road spray.
I dive in the ocean. Our sewage treatment is screening + dilution.
I work out at the Y.
I get exposed to so many germs and bugs that I get sick less often than the veterans here who got the military-grade boosters.
My estimation is that I'll be bitten on day four but it won't take.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
I like how vocal you are, but completely bereft of an actual point except being anti-nuke.
Outlawed? I don't see that in anything you've cited. If you mean, rather, that it isn't FDA approved, I think you need to blame Coley himself.
A lack of reproducibility is FATAL to a scientific claim and any sort of study. You might as well claim you saw a unicorn in the forest.
Unless you're going to now claim the article has been surreptitiously changed by "nuke shills" to discredit him. Chances are he was on to something, but failed to appropriately document it in a way that was useful. Then, unsurprisingly, an effective solution came along and overshadowed his work.
But you didn't post this to highlight his work. You came to scream OOGA BOOGA NUKULAR.