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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22"The drug was designed to seek the gene out in diseased tissues and destroy it. He described the gene as "a molecular assassin.""
Oh good. Just what I wanted. An assassin in my blood stream. That sounds REAL safe.
'Possible side effects include internal bleeding, hearing loss, gangrene, and mild death' - node3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Mild death is going through life never getting the joke. Symptoms include the swooshing sound of jokes flying over your head and being buried on digg.
The most common remedy is to go to a comedy club. This can either promote remission of mild death or, in severe cases, result in audience-assisted regular death. - atomicbomb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11a bit of (aussie?) sarcasm... i love it.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not so fast. Drug companies have to determine if the drug will be more profitable than current treatments before they decide whether or not to sell it. If it doesn't make them money, you'll never see it. Even if it does cure everything. Probably especially if it cures everything.
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11This is great news- to celebrate, join me in lighting a cigarette, knocking back a sixpack and ***** a gutterslut sans condom. We can fry up a few Mars bars dipped in lard if we get peckish!
- deags, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8And we didn't need to be hated stupid fat and drive huge cars like the yanks to do it :P
- chieffy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Oh good. Just what I wanted. An assassin in my blood stream. That sounds REAL safe."
Isn't that what white blood cells do. Act like assassins. In fact, aren't there good bacteria in your body that kill off bad bacteria. Why yes there are. Not as bad as it sounds is it. - foovo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yes, we call it alcohol.
- tyno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The release from UNSW is here:
http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2006/jul/Drug_breakthrough.html - c5mjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Still gets a digg for the headline. Hilarious.
- birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The ancients have found out about this stuff thousands of years ago.
It's called Poison. There is nothing it won't cure... once and for all. - CoolBananas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You've got to despise the way these things are unleashed on the public. For example, the title of this article is tabloid worthy to the extreme. People who are positioned to benefit from such a drug are given false hope by sensationalist publications. It's not really fair is it?
- omababy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5..."and it we expect it to be on the market in the next 20yrs".
I suspect this will be the last I ever hear of this scientific discovery, going by experience that is. - richpav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Assuming for a moment this isn't fiction, guess how much it'll cost per dose. I dare ya.
Another thought--once this drug gets overused as much as the ones that are no longer effective today, will every living creature be killed by a super-dooper uber-bug that develops an immunity to it? - szelij, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Come on seriously? Give us at least a credible news source! A medical journal or something...even the BBC would be okay. But Xinhua?
- Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well well, then we'll.. I mean.. that nasty mother nature will just launch another disease into the world in order to stop the world from overpopulating.
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Pwn bat of the disease world? Sounds good. :) Congrats to the scientists of NSW Uni. Too bad they beat UQ to it. =P
- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sweet, I live just near UNSW. And I used to be a campus security guard while I studied there, so I know how to get back in and grab some samples. Any Diggers want to help me out with some off-the-record 'research'?
On another note, are there any Australians who are surprised that we came up with this? Yeah, I didn't think so. - dh8r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow c-Jun is important in a lot of pathways. Who knows what other cell functions knocking down c-Jun expression might cause.
- mkjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I seem to remember a little drug named Thalidomide which was touted as doing the same.
- boxc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and the original SMH article referenced in original link:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/NATIONAL/New-super-drug-may-combat-cancer/2006/07/03/1151778858991.html - GT35R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im not digging this. Sounds like bs.
- SuperMank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You'd expect them to test it out first, it's not like they would give it to you if it caused you to DIE.
- Nik420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does someone have a source for this from an Australian site? I tend not to trust the "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" aspect of Chinese media.
On another note I actually heard a recording of someone singing the Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy Ren and Stimpy song, and it wasn't meant to be a joke. Must be children's music or something. - Jonty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What do you mean "even the BBC"? While not as detailed as a mediacal journal, at least it'll be unbiased and fairly accurate (as much as simplification of complex concepts allows.)
- Anamith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Mr. Burns, I'm afraid you are the sickest man in the United States. You have everything."
- Fixe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2digg for the title :P
- sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3On the other hand, if you'd like to know about the safety of using any type of ninja,
Please, ASK a ninja.
http://www.askaninja.com/ - cakefart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope to Allah they don't actually release a product into the market- anything that shuts down c-Jun would essentially take the lid off all cell differentiation.
Think of people being filled with aggressive tumors and turning into bloody masses of pulp...
As for the "magic bullet" approach to targeting cells- this has been the dream of drug designers since German organic chemists started gulping down and sniffing everything in their labs in the 1870's. Antibiotics proved to be close, but no cigar.
When César Milstein et. al. invented Monoclonal Antibodies, the idea came up again, and still has some life in sporadic attempts to create "Cancer Vaccines"- so far, the results have mostly wound up killing a lot of people in early trials, and not much else. There are plenty of worthwhile poisons out there, something that hits the cell cycle isn't likely to be any better than cyanide. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Side effects: You bleed from your pores then explode and die.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A pure-text article from a chinese news agency with no links or sources to back it up? Sorry if I don't trust it. We all know how the chinese media is essentially a propaganda machine for the government there. People get fired in China for reporting real news.
- muffinmanpoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As per above: http://www.smh.com.au/news/NATIONAL/New-super-drug-may-combat-cancer/2006/07/03/1151778858991.html
- AnotherBrian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome, maybe I won't need to buy that "Natural Cures" book by Kevin Trudeau's
http://www.infomercialwatch.org/tran/trudeau.shtml
Also, I submitted this a while ago
http://digg.com/tech_news/I_hereby_nominate_Kevin_Trudeau_for_Biggest_Douche_in_the_Universe - JPFinno, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2eh?
where did you pull that stupid crap from? Australian medical researchers are some of the best in the world.
In fact, 2 Australians won the last Nobel Prize for Medicine for something completely different.
Wait a minute... do you even know where Australia is? You don't do you? - c5mjohn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I cant wait to buy this drug on line on the cortex in my time traveling flying car. Why do they even publicize stuff like this? Everything about this "breakthrough" sounds like BS.
- jchri09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah my little brother won a nobel prize for making a toothbrush. They mean nothing.
I am surprised you guys have electricity. If it weren't for us educating your poor country you would still be behind like in the UK. - jchri09, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Sounds like some more snake oil again.
Why is it that Australia is 50 years behind us in the medical field and yet they just came up with a miracle drug? - iSlayer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I submitted the same story here:
http://www.digg.com/health/Cure-all_drug_hits_godfather_of_genes
But oh heck! Ill digg this! =) - ActivitY, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5mild death? whats the diference between mild death and just normal death?
either way you die don't you?
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