'Living drug' offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 5:30 AM UTC

'Living drug' offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients
bbc.co.uk

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Post by sapilla » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:43 AM UTC

This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.

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Post by gaspoweredcat » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:58 AM UTC

kind of a good and bad thing to call it really though, obviously even though they are dying no one wants a "Dying drug" but likewise "Living Drug" seems to offer a little too much, "Anti-Dying Drug" maybe? :P

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Post by NotSammyHagar » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 7:05 AM UTC

This is the way it will work in the future, so many diseases will one by one get treatments that are individualized genetic treatments. They will gradually get cheaper. You will hope to survive till a treatment for your problems get cheap.

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Post by ImaCake » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 7:37 AM UTC

sapilla wrote: post #2

This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.

They also use a HIV like virus as the vector to modify the T-Cells in the first place!

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Post by ImaCake » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 7:39 AM UTC

When I first heard about this I thought it would be another failed wonderdrug. But I am very excited to see it's adoption in mainstream medicine, even if for just the most extreme patients. Treatments like this, and other less audacious immunotherapies give me a lot of hope for the future of decreasing human suffering.

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Post by trampypizza » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 7:51 AM UTC

sapilla wrote: post #2

This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.

I thought it sounded a bit like one of the Witcher trials.

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Post by milofeynman » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 8:33 AM UTC

They don't mention it in the article but I believe this is the first big treatment to use CRISPR/Cas9

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30261221/

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Post by WalterBright » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 8:40 AM UTC

sapilla wrote: post #2

This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.

I wouldn't worry about zombies. They violate conservation of energy laws, for one.

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Post by cdmckay » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 8:56 AM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #9

sapilla wrote: post #2

This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.

I wouldn't worry about zombies. They violate conservation of energy laws, for one.

Also, how do they move if their muscles have rotted away and they have no functioning circulatory system?