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- SlvrEagle23, on 11/27/2007, -5/+56First trackball, then optical, then laser...now cancer-resistant?
Logitech's really on the ball these days... ;) - sockpuppets, on 11/27/2007, -6/+40"The mouse scored an incredible 9000 DPI, we've never seen anything like it" exclaimed scientists. "We've still got a way to go, however, as it only has one button."
- kooft, on 11/27/2007, -2/+26In other news, the world's last best hope in the fight against cancer, a cancer resistant 'mighty' mouse, was found dead after an succumbing to the temptation of cheese on an ordinary household mouse trap.
- calderson, on 11/27/2007, -0/+11So... I sent this to my friend who does cancer research on mice and here is what she said: "The protein (Par-4) was identified about 10 years ago as one that helps cells commit suicide when they should (like when they're too old or damaged). Typically, cancer cells ignore that signal, which helps them to become immortal (cancer cells are immortal). These authors have shown over the last 10 years that almost all the cancer cells they looked at turn off this protein as a means to help the cancer cells become/stay immortal. It's a good target for cancer research, but I'm a little weary about the author's assertion that the mice (those special ones they made) are "normal." Their immune cells must be messed up. I wonder if they challenged them with virus or bacteria (lab mice are kept super clean, no bugs allowed)."
- waebi, on 11/27/2007, -5/+14a ******* gay apple mouse ;-)
- deviouskoopa, on 11/27/2007, -1/+8Cannabalism. World hunger and overpopulation solved!
- Corneileus, on 11/27/2007, -0/+6I created a sandwich, and discovered that the cheese was moldy.
That's how I saw it, at least. - munkeyhatecleen, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7"The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek Rangnekar and a team of researchers who found a tumor-suppressor gene called "Par-4" in the prostate."
It was originally set to be a Par 3 but it was changed after realizing how difficult it was to make the final 150 yard drive to the green. - sockpuppets, on 11/27/2007, -3/+8In unrelated news emergency room physicians reported a disturbing increase in lemmywinkitius.
- dmoney22, on 11/27/2007, -1/+6"on the ball"
More like on the laser. - Gonz037, on 11/27/2007, -4/+8Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right Mighty Mouse will join the fight.
- unbreakable, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4I came here hoping to read some insightful comments about the article.
All I see is stupid jokes about mighty mouse & one button mouses. Is there any digger older than 20? - mediatedthought, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4I wouldn't take too much stock in this article. It is an achievement, but it seems like digg articles have cured cancer numerous times, but we still don't have any good treatments for cancer victims.
- Meus1, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Although your way of saying it is stupid, you're on to something. Cancer is no 'new' disease, man has always had cancer. As I can see it, the only reason to why cancer increasingly is becoming a problem is:
A - Health care is getting better and we identify cancer more easily.
B - We live longer and we have overcome or cured diseases that would have killed us at earlier ages.
C - As society and technology advances we're increasingly being exposed to external factors that would possibly speed up the generation of cancer such as radiation and toxins.
Having said all this my point is that it is a good question to ask what comes after we've cured cancer. - unbreakable, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3The only relevant post in the comment section. Thanks for the information.
- KangoTraveler, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3it's Amazing how the comments on this type of article as so cynical, I feel eventually someone will crack the code on this and make a breakthrough that cannot be ignored.
- tdp301, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4You must not have been on digg long...
- fugimugim, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4damn i wish i was a mouse
- Wenz, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3I think this is great news. Maybe someday they will actually be able to utilize something like this in humans.
- scott2007, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3What on Earth do you mean? Cancer deaths have been falling for years due to modern treatments.
- kooft, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3It's not uh tumah!
- SublimeRuin, on 11/27/2007, -5/+7Discovered? - How can you create a discovery?
Create - To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
Discover - To see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of something previously not known.
Either way - Bad writing does not equal bad news.
This is good to see. One step forward for medicine, genetic mutation and our eventually Medically Mutated overlords. - iashraf, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Those idiots tested the wrong mouse. Get a hold of a mighty mouse - the three button, trackball species!
- foofoobee, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2It's a first step, and it's an important one. Medical research doesn't have practical applications overnight.
- IIIKrazyKiDDIII, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2We've got to invent a new disease again?
- cyrix, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3I've seen this movie. Create ailment resistant creature. Said creature bites human. Then...ZOMBIES!!!
- knowitman, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Especially since most of the news made about your basketball team involves you guys losing.
- piesforyou, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2I'm still using my good old, reliable, logitech mechanical mouse. It's great.
- mstrebe, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2You have no idea how money is made, obviously. Nor do you seem to take note of the long list of heinous chronic diseases which have already been completely cured by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, such as syphilis and most other STDs, Small pox, Bubonic Plague, malaria, whooping cough, measles, rubella--diseases you've probably never even heard of because they don't happen anymore--in countries where capitalism is functioning. Odds are you don't know anyone who has died of a any disease who was younger than age 60. But oh yeah, pharmaceutical companies are evil.
Science is hard. Cures are miracles that come from the hard work of chemists, doctors, and scientists. They cost billions of dollars to safely develop (so you don't have to digg up all the stories about unsafe drugs killing millions of children) and that takes money from somebody to develop. They don't come from sitting around and bitching about how everybody's motivations should be as pure (and useless) as yours are. - scott2007, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1This isn't selfish. The population explosion of the past 70 years has caused billions of children being born in poverty and they end up suffering greatly from or dying of malnutrition. It was highly irresponsible to distribute vaccines to people who wouldn't change their breeding habits due to religious and cultural taboos. This population explosion has greatly hurt the environment as well.
- TheOther1, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1You forgot to drop the seatbelt and helmet lasw as well as legalizing all drugs. That will surely help.
- DSGalvin, on 11/27/2007, -2/+3silly Hess, you don't get cancer from cannabis :p
(Lung damage is a given though...) - chuckDontSurf, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1You're right. We should divert all funding away from cancer research and into developing the elusive 6-patty bacon cheeseburger.
- DeFex, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2it will be only allowed for bonesmen
- expert01, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1And yet the title says they discovered the mouse, not the gene...
- Meus1, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Did you not understand my post or simply not read it? My critisism is mainly about how the media tried to angle this article by saying a mouse had resistance to cancer. You see this in all media today and I hate it.
- NetJoe, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1RTFA: The implications for humans could be that through bone marrow transplantation, the Par-4 molecule could potentially be used to fight cancer cells in patients without the toxic and damaging side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
- scott2007, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1No, it won't effect the population as much as the development of vaccines for childhood diseases in the mid-20th century. People will live longer, but they don't die from cancer before they reproduce. The percentage of people dying from cancer right now is fairly low.
- SantaClauz, on 11/27/2007, -6/+7That has to be the most selfish comment I've ever read on Digg. Wow.
- EmoOnParade, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2next they'll be making a "nuclear mosquito"
- Jaleho, on 11/27/2007, -2/+3So, if telomerase extends the telomeres, extending life but increasing the risk of cancer, and Par-4 makes them cancer resistant... would a combination of the two be a possible immortality treatment?
- jellygraph, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2From Kentucky, of all places...
yet, still, this is awesome news - Meus1, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1As a reply to my post that just made no sense at all. It's like we're speaking two different languages here, which in it self is ironic considering your opening statement.
- Typhoon2009, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2not lupus, etc
- Smills, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Better solution. Fix the hungry and homeless problem at the same time. Feed the homeless to the hungry. Problem solved.
- KingMoses, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1The fact is that overpopulation is not a problem; the entire overpopulation scare is based off Paul R. Ehrlich's book "The Population Bomb" and since he wrote it, every prediction he made has been dead wrong.
- duddles, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1They discovered a new tumor-suppressor gene, and then created a mouse that over-expresses the gene.
- waebi, on 11/27/2007, -3/+4"Create" a resistant HUMAN, then come back. *eg*
- gettarat, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Interesting, what happens next
http://aphonesite.com - knowitman, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Is it a Wildcat?
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