Sorry but the site looks too sensationalist for me.
Is there any other source?
Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice
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#42We are destroying ecosystems so fast that there will be no frogs and we will regret it. The same with all the nature
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#43I'm astounded that this thread doesn't contain at least one 'eat the frog' joke.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
AGI is clearly right around the corner. It might not be able to make an accurate diagram of a cancer research study but it’s gonna cure cancer in no time…
~~I wouldn't be so sure about "clearly". We're still very squarely in the "fancy auto-complete" stage of "AI", the name of which I still consider more branding than reality.~~ Edit: Ignore me, I'm sleepy and can't read, lol
The person you’re replying to was being glib
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#45Mice are having a great year
Hmm, mice get much impressive medical results to be linked to here and there, but overall it’s not certain the species benefit that much in happiness and fulfilment.
The pride and sense of achievement they ought to feel that members of their kind did something should be enough to feel superior though
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#46Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice
#47We are destroying ecosystems so fast that there will be no frogs and we will regret it. The same with all the nature
We get what we deserve. We let the top 1% destroy our planet and also let them live the longest in their bunkers, while we deal with the repercussions of not having done enough.
But I've noticed that folks on HN are very very fond of capitalism, so it's no point arguing against it on here and on the effects of wealth accumulation and greed.
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#48The blog is highly suspect, but the study is real. That said it’s not a big deal. Curing cancer in a mouse model is not at all uncommon in new therapies. Mouse models like this are vastly easier to treat than real world cancer for a bunch of reasons. Fully curing mice is the baseline for a treatment to even be considered for further evaluation. And even then very few therapies end up succeeding in humans - low single…
When my mother was fighting cancer, I recall the many disappointments of finding research shrinking tumours in animal models, only to find out the human research showing it didnt work in humans. This was in the 2010s, before llms, but when google search actually searched the web. Then, once you found something that seemed to work in humans, you were hit with the realization that ‘cancer’ is an umbrella term, and you need to account for cell type, and its numerous mutations.. I think the best approach is to collect a sample of the cancer, genotype it, test it against all known anticancer compounds, similar to how you’d deal with a bacterial infection sample, and then hope that the compound that worked for that specific cancer cell will work inside the human
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
AGI is clearly right around the corner. It might not be able to make an accurate diagram of a cancer research study but it’s gonna cure cancer in no time…
~~I wouldn't be so sure about "clearly". We're still very squarely in the "fancy auto-complete" stage of "AI", the name of which I still consider more branding than reality.~~ Edit: Ignore me, I'm sleepy and can't read, lol
How in the world did you miss such obvious sarcasm?
Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice
#50We are destroying ecosystems so fast that there will be no frogs and we will regret it. The same with all the nature
We get what we deserve. We let the top 1% destroy our planet and also let them live the longest in their bunkers, while we deal with the repercussions of not having done enough. But I've noticed that folks on HN are very very fond of capitalism, so it's no point arguing against it on here and on the effects of wealth accumulation and greed.
People here strive to be the ones hiding in the bunkers as the world burns.