One Drug to Shrink All Tumors
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One Drug to Shrink All Tumors
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#2The real cancer cure is white blood cell transfusion. Check with LEF for more info (they are funding the trial). Certain Chinese doctors in China will perform it (under the cover), for those in need.
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#3Impressive with what kind of research and development scientist come up! Hope it works or at least helps.
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#4The real cancer cure is white blood cell transfusion. Check with LEF for more info (they are funding the trial). Certain Chinese doctors in China will perform it (under the cover), for those in need.
How do I like short comments like this. One cure and your cancer will go away. Yeah, right. And people actually might believe things like that with the result that they don't get proven treatment in time.
Cancer is really serious, it can kill you you know, and since there are promising developments (as far as I can tell as not being a doctor), we are still far away from a definite cure to that.
You would realy do everyone a favor by keeping comments like that for yourself.
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#5Here is my take on curing cancer from a programmers perspective. Extract a healthy strain of DNA from the patient, insert the healthy DNA into a virus that will be targeted to attack all cells of a certain type, which will include the cancerous cells. The erroneous/ cancerous will be replaced with the healthy DNA, while healthy cells get the DNA they already had. It's kinda like reformatting a hard drive. Has anyone heard of a custom treatment like this?
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#6Here is my take on curing cancer from a programmers perspective. Extract a healthy strain of DNA from the patient, insert the healthy DNA into a virus that will be targeted to attack all cells of a certain type, which will include the cancerous cells. The erroneous/ cancerous will be replaced with the healthy DNA, while healthy cells get the DNA they already had. It's kinda like reformatting a hard drive. Has anyone…
If you make enough simplifying assumptions anything is trivial.
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#7"Weissman's team has received a $20 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine"
It's heartening to see this being properly funded.
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#8The real cancer cure is white blood cell transfusion. Check with LEF for more info (they are funding the trial). Certain Chinese doctors in China will perform it (under the cover), for those in need.
I'm going to ignore the HN guidelines and not be civil for a moment...You're an arsehole. Once you lose someone close to you from cancer you'll understand why.
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#9Wow. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but Irv Weissman and his lab are the real deal. Here's the original article (which is open access): http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/20/1121623109
Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen such promising initial results only to hit roadblocks in translation, but here's to hoping it's a real effect, even if it eventually turns out to be less than a true "cure"!
Edit: looks like this is follow-up work from Weissman's research on Leukemia, which is considered influential: http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(09)00650-3
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#10Here is my take on curing cancer from a programmers perspective. Extract a healthy strain of DNA from the patient, insert the healthy DNA into a virus that will be targeted to attack all cells of a certain type, which will include the cancerous cells. The erroneous/ cancerous will be replaced with the healthy DNA, while healthy cells get the DNA they already had. It's kinda like reformatting a hard drive. Has anyone…
> The erroneous/ cancerous will be replaced with the healthy DNA
Human DNA, weighing in at gigabases, is too large to fit into viruses. Also, 'replacement' implies getting rid of the bad stuff, which isn't really explicitly contemplated here.
Finally, if you are good enough at identifying cancer cells from the outside that you can target them for DNA replacement, you'll probably be better off by just killing that cell.