What is Digg?34 Comments
- cnot3, on 09/02/2008, -2/+15With every ***** article on the front page being about how much Palin sucks, I miss good old digg cliches like this. Dugg.
- randyzaia, on 09/02/2008, -5/+17the weekly digg cure for cancer
- Spawn2105, on 09/01/2008, -0/+12"They have unpicked the structure of telomerase, an enzyme which, when active, helps keep cells in an "immortal" state.
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Telomerase controls the evolution of cancers - and is a key characteristic of human cancer cells.
The idea is that you could convert immortal cancer cells back into mortal ones by blocking telomerase in this way.
Having discovered the structure now, it will certainly help the development of drugs."
More and more news appear with new advances in curing cancer or at least better treatment for certain types of cancer. Lets hope a mainstream cure can be found soon. - holyskeleton, on 09/02/2008, -2/+10another day on digg, another cure for cancer / AIDS.
seriously, dont bother with this "hope" or "maybe" news until a patient has been COMPLETELY cured. that is, back to normal status like everybody else. - BXRWXR, on 09/01/2008, -2/+10In before cancer cure bitching.
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -4/+11Digg's weekly quota of one cancer cure article has just been met.
- BelatedHero, on 09/02/2008, -0/+6Immortal cancer cells?? THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
- ajUCI, on 09/02/2008, -3/+8A cure for cancer? Digg told me that we cured that last week!
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5This is the cancer thats killing digg.
- Techx4, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3well your certainly optimistic
- filldeviant, on 09/02/2008, -1/+4Digg: Curing Cancer Daily
However it is a nice breath of fresh air from all of this Palin nonsense. Good to have you back, Digg. - SilverBlade2k, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3Yet another 'cure for cancer' that won't ever be used..
- forceuser, on 09/02/2008, -1/+3Cancer is the cancer killing digg.
- Ne007, on 09/02/2008, -0/+2Is this the one they were talking about 15 years ago...you know...the one that was supposed to come out after 10 years of testing?
Or is this another one that will come out after 10 years of testing?
either way I'm very excited and ready to invest money. - debuggercll, on 09/02/2008, -1/+3That's looking on the bright side of things.
- SilverBlade2k, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Hospitals have been using the same, damned, harmful poison known as 'chemotherapy', even though we've seen 'cure' after 'cure' after 'cure' be announced.
- Singularitarian, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1The "years of testing" complaint is legitimate. The FDA needs to get out of my way and let me take whatever risks I want with my own health, including testing any experimental treatments I want with my own body.
I don't need the government to do my thinking for me. The government is not smarter than me. Let me make up my own mind and take my own personal risks. - DforSpiD, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1If you actually read the articles they rarely state that they actually have a cure, they usually state a slightly better or less painful treatment or a big step toward a cure... not a cure in itself...
- iamichi, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Ahh but this is the BBC ;-)
- UpperUpsilon, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Cool, maybe we can build a tower!
- Metasquares, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately, that world would have been destroyed several times over by the LHC.
- footodors, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Telomerase- "Don't let me catch you walking alone!!!"
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -1/+2You beat me to it by a few seconds :(
- Metasquares, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1While I think telomerase antagonists are one of the most hopeful classes of drugs, there has been one in trials that, though it has performed fairly well at reducing tumor loads, has not resulted in a complete cure. It was manufactured by Geron and is called GRN163L, if you're interested in looking it up. I believe their most promising results were for hematological malignancies, such as leukemia and myeloma.
One major problem is that alternate anti-aging pathways exist even in the absence of telomerase, some of which cancer cells can exploit.
This drug did, however, increase chemosensitivity, suggesting that telomerase inhibitors + more traditional therapies given in tandem could have a significant effect on the prognosis of certain malignancies. - buckrogers1965, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1They have had the anti-angiogenisis cure for decades now. All you have to do to stop tumors from growing larger than a grain of sand is to prevent blood vessels from growing to feed it. Since the blood vessels growth is a normal biological function it is easy to stop. The tumors even do it themselves, once one big tumor is established, it releases chemicals that prevent the growth of other tumors, that is why often when the primary tumor is removed that many secondary tumors begin to rapidly grow.
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1I miss all the tazer posts.
- exec0extreme, on 09/02/2008, -4/+4I wish the world was a magical place like digg where cancer and HIV was cured every 2-3 weeks
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -5/+5...WE DID IT AGAIN!
- atchon, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0You know some people are actually interested in reading about scientific progress instead of just bitching about "oh another cure". It really is infuriating as a future scientist and someone who has done cancer research to see people complaining about these articles, they are sharing information they are not claiming a cure. Should be a little more supportive of the researchers doing all this research instead of just bitching because when a cure which works well in humans comes along it will help you.
- gkiltz, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0WAIT- Don't jump the gun!!
it is a huge leap from the laboratory to a usable product or methodology. You never know how long it takes, or if it will work in the real world at all.
This certainly is progress, but you never know where it will lead, or how soon! - arson1st, on 09/02/2008, -2/+1cure for cancer...
whats new on digg.
NEXT WEEK..
free health care for the entire planet - inactive, on 09/02/2008, -5/+2Didn't they find this a few months ago in Canada, but it was ignored?
- Maurik, on 09/01/2008, -8/+2No doubt any new treatment will be ridiculously expensive and require years of testing before becoming available on the market...
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