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- kcasper, on 02/14/2009, -0/+9Good, now they need to do the same for people.
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Use your computer's free time to help cancer and other research. - supermanly, on 02/15/2009, -2/+7Digg, curing cancer since 2004
- Neuro421, on 02/15/2009, -0/+3The problem is, if the tumor is not vascularized (as is the case for many forms of cancer), the delivery of these cells will be hampered.
- moirende, on 02/15/2009, -0/+3Unfortunately lots of things work in mice that, for a large variety of reasons, don't end up working in humans. Nothing to get too excited about unless they make it to at least Phase III clinical trials. Given they haven't even got to Phase I yet, this is really just another promising but unproven line of research. Fingers crossed, though...
- FI5HERMAN, on 02/15/2009, -0/+3If we can live long enough, the new discoveries will keep us alive forever & I am not sure I want to live that long !!!
- kaoitik, on 02/15/2009, -1/+4Wait, wasn't there a movie made about something like this? I think it was called "I am legend" or something.
- drunkenoaf, on 02/15/2009, -0/+2We've been curing cancer in mice for decades now. If mice = humans, then cancer would have been cured in the 1970's.
On the other hand, your immune system is often behind spontaneous remissions in cancer; it does mop up the cancer cells. So, if it can be done safely (a big IF), and more importantly, cheaply enough for healthcare providers to offer it... it could actually work! - SilverBlade2k, on 02/15/2009, -1/+3Another possible cancer cure found, and like the others, will never exit the labs...
- lornali, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2Hope this development will help humans
- inactive, on 02/15/2009, -2/+3I'd rather be playing with Angelina Jolie's amazing breasts.
- Triticum, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1Tumor raider
- kd1s, on 02/15/2009, -1/+2Consider that there are lots of mice out there in labs with human immune systems it's not such a far stretch to think that treatments based on this might come to humans sooner than later.
It's the approval process that takes so long. It's got to be tested multiple times to assess any negative consequences. - sexLethal, on 02/15/2009, -0/+1True as it may be, but that would mean the cancer is in its early stages and unmetastasized...which is good in a sense and may be a candidate for excision. It wouldn't need this route of treatment either. Just learned in molecular bio, transposons are the new delivery system for genetic constructs, since retroviruses can lead to bad bad things--like I am Legend
/s - SilverBlade2k, on 02/15/2009, -0/+1I thought Digg started in 2005...
- RepublicofJosh, on 02/15/2009, -1/+2Looks like we're on track for a zombie apocalypse in 2012 :/
- phlipsyde, on 02/15/2009, -0/+0is it pretty much the same as folding@home?
- demi1555, on 02/15/2009, -3/+1Porshia,the weirest,meanest,stupidest thing to happen to this world.Poor world,poor world.
- demi1555, on 02/15/2009, -6/+1So you do not want to see this girl ever in your life so if you dont......YOU ARE THE LUCKIEST....so....be happy for you ok.So Porshia is the worst person in the planets and i mean all of them!I will tell you about her: She is........an idiot.....a loser......a mean girl......a stupid.....thing that ever came opon the face of earth.
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