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Genetically Modified Salmonella Destroys Cancer By Provoking An Immune Response, Study Finds (sandiegouniontribune.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from San Diego Union-Tribune: A genetically modified bacterium destroys tumors by provoking an immune response, according to a study published Wednesday. Using mice and cultures of human cancer cells, a South Korean-led scientific team demonstrated that Salmonella typhimurium engineered to make a foreign protein caused immune cells called macrophages and neutralizes to mobilize against the cancer. The bacterium came from an attenuated strain that has little infectious potential. Such strains have been tested as vaccines. The protein, called FlaB, is made by a gene in the estuarine bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, a close relative of the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Tumors shrank below detectable levels in 11 out of 20 mice injected with the modified Salmonella, said the study, published in Science Translational Medicine. The engineered Salmonella provoke a sustained immune response, in addition to preventing the spread of a human colon cancer implanted in a mouse. The bacterium also were found to be nontoxic, multiplying almost exclusively inside tumors.
Or end of humanity once modified genes jump to gut bacteria and we suddenly become hyper-allergic to benign stuff.
I hope they figure out some kind of kill switch for modified organisms before doomsday happens.
Quite a bit of our genome came from bacteria, viruses, and fungi-- genes that "jumped" to us.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
That said, I hope this new treatment comes to something in human trials. I went through two years of intensive chemo, and from that feel we are in the dark ages still wrt cancer treatment. We give people poison that destroys their bodies to cure them (more often buy a little time). It seems like a treatment contemporary to bloodletting and leeches.
you... you want people to start doing their own research? like set up a multi-billion dollar lab in their basement, study biochemistry for 20 years, etc? Or do you mean
the research you're missing is on your sources. all you can do on hard things you don't know is to research how good your sources are, and pick the opinion of the best one and trust their expertise. your research is very poor.
by the way, the flu vaccine is over 50% effective. souce: cdc, where hundreds of smart scientists with decades of experience each concur. you source: your yoga instructor who has a blog and wrote in it after watching a youtube video.
here's an idea: when all the real scientists agree on something and 1% disagrees, that 1% may be wrong. but unless you're a scientist in that field yourself, you are too dumb to make that determination. you're just some loser that now thinks he knows string theory is bs because he read a 40 page book with pretty pictures and short words, but no numbers.
actually, scratch that. stay the way you are. the dumber and more ridiculous others are in the world, the easier for me. big fish small pond and all. relative higher salary. hotter girls, more clowns to laugh at round.