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- RJ0534, on 05/01/2009, -0/+15Horrible headline... thought it was about a cell phone that was on.
- MarshalBanana, on 05/01/2009, -0/+4aaaaannnnd...
- pegothejerk, on 05/01/2009, -0/+4And in 10 years when I'm in the first trials for gene therapy, I'll be real happy about being able to breathe year round, but REALLY pissed about my new vestigial tail growing from what once was an attractive bum to the ladies.
- Firstdaughter, on 05/01/2009, -2/+6
The implications for this aren't just for allergy sufferers, it is for any autoimmune disease like Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, MS, etc. This is an amazing discovery but the unfortunate reality is that any human treatment is years off. They have only just found the switch, now they need to learn how to properly maintain stasis in humans and that will be no easy task. - anexanhume, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3The tail should grow above the bum, not on it. Just think of it as another apparatus, for um, *special* activities.
- TWiThead, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3Headlines can be edited, you know. Some information had to be omitted, but "Scientists find the cellular on and off switch for allergies" would have consumed the same number of characters. "Cellular on and off switch for allergies and asthma found" would have been even better.
- jerrycan, on 05/01/2009, -1/+3I stopped drinking milk and my allergies went away! Try it! It should work for EVERYONE! LOL
- vsaint, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2Proceed to play joke on other scientist's girlfriend.
- Enlefo, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1I'll start cheering when they actually do something with this. It's not even in the vaporware stage yet.
- gdha, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1Wow, very interesting article. My allergies are horrible!
- Enlefo, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1I did the same and my allergies are definitely better. Human being are the only animals that drink milk past infancy and I think it's unnatural for us to do so. I dunno if I can even completely give up all milk products though... cheese is just to delicious.
- Firstdaughter, on 05/01/2009, -2/+2Lupus is caused by antibodies against one's own DNA. It is an autoimmune disease. Perhaps you should check your online medical dictionary. I happened to remember this little factoid from my graduate studies in genetics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythe ... - hpkuarg, on 05/01/2009, -0/+0Asthma and allergies suck, I'm excited.
- AYork, on 05/01/2009, -0/+0LOL@cytokine therapies in cell culture = OMG we're all cured.
Interesting stuff, and certainly important for the field of mast cell development, but don't expect it in pill form anytime soon. Or possibly ever. This is yet another case of interesting research sensationalized by public perception. This hasn't even been done in a whole animal yet. Cytokines get their potency from tight temporal and spatial control; sometime literally handed from one cell to the next through contact. Traditionally, cytokines make for dirty treatments that only marginally work.
I was a coauthor on a paper 5-6 years ago on the IL13/AdoR1 feedback loop & its potential impact on asthma that got a similar writeup, and it had implications in COPD as well; much bigger market. IIRC, our PI even got interviewed by a few newspapers. Sensationalized the hell out of it and made it look like he said all kinds of things he didn't say. And no, we're not sitting on a cure. Pretty nifty little signaling system, but not what the press made it out to be. - DrWordSmith, on 05/01/2009, -2/+1Its never Lupus
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