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- Frankzulla, on 11/12/2009, -0/+23Truly this is a jubilant day for mice inflicted with cancer.
- BeShirtHappy, on 11/12/2009, -0/+21This is very promising news!
- anonymousmedic, on 11/12/2009, -1/+8Or, we could just listen to Susane Summers new book and die in less than 6 months of totally treatable cancers because of bad alternative medicine. But hey, you didn't fall into that big pharma money trap!
Your call, folks. - freezo1994, on 11/13/2009, -1/+5did Digg cure cancer again???
/s this actually seems promising - darkwater37, on 11/13/2009, -1/+5Just because they can get it to work in mice doesn't mean it will work in humans, but it's a good sign it might.
- nullcodes, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Can we test our theories on you then?
- Kungfumantis239, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Once again, Yay science!
- wonderchemist, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Curing cancer is just going to encourage people to get cancer!
- ricker2005, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2There certainly is profit in a cure. If Merck makes a treatment for cervical cancer and Pfizer doesn't, why wouldn't Pfizer want to sell a cure? They'd make tons of money and take money out of Merck's pockets at the same time.
- Glassmentality, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Let's see this story on the evening news.
/s - motivatedguy, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Another promising cure that will be shot into deep space and never heard from again. There is no profit in a cure...
- Intrusionv2, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Lol @ all the idiots on Digg complaining about using mice, would you like to volunteer to be experimented on instead? Didn't think so. Mice are used because they serve as a model organism for human disorders. It is possible to create exact replicas of the genetic defects that cause diseases in humans.
- AlphaDrake, on 11/13/2009, -1/+2Seems every 6 months scientists cure some kind of cancer or disease in mice, but I still see no cure for cancer/diabetes/blindness etc.
Not trying to rain on their parade, just see this too much nowadays. - Intrusionv2, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Right, well said. Completely agree.
- tgc1, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Don't expect this breakthrough to make it to clinical trials or save anyone. We've cured cancer how many times on Digg now?
- spiritflare1, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1if i had a penny for each time the media proclaims a lab cure...
- atchon, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Yea they are the FIRST model. Trials then are done in primates and larger mammals. Many a drug which has worked in mice has failed to work in primates. Even fewer work in humans which have even larger genetic diversity than lab animals.
Not against the use of mice or being ignorant my undergrad research has involved looking for cancer biomarkers in mice, but it is not a direct translation works in mice = works in man. - johndi, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1They aren't idiots. While mice are very useful for testing out cardiovascular or anti-inflammatory drugs they don't have a good track record when it comes to cancer drugs. What we need is a better model for testing cancer drugs than mice. We have seen a high number of false positives and we may also be discarding useful treatments that didn't work in mice. Maybe that new model will be a better mouse, but it might be a possum.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,9 ...
http://www.bmtinfonet.org/newsletters/issue42/cure ... - iamthearm, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Another success story about mice and cancer? gezzz
- motivatedguy, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1I agree, however, if there is a cure you'd only have to treat a person once. With all the ads on TV for pills that medicate every problem under the sun (another can of worms) it's obvious to me that these companies are more interested in medicating and not curing.
- fuzzynyanko, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Heh, since cervical cancer is related to HPV, an STD, some will not like the cure.
- Intrusionv2, on 11/13/2009, -2/+2Mice are used as a model organism for humans. It's one of the foundations of biological science.
- ricker2005, on 11/13/2009, -1/+1Not all pharm companies treat all diseases. What profits would they be eating into exactly if they develop a cure for a disease they don't have a drug for?
- walruspanzer, on 11/13/2009, -2/+2I agree completely. But I am also skeptical that big pharma companies, if a cure was found, would allow it to be released in due time. They must maintain their profit margins!
- Samueul, on 11/14/2009, -0/+0We sure as hell seem to be able to cure anything in other species huh? I bet the same treatment turns a human into some sort of ***** zombie or something....
- karacska, on 11/27/2009, -0/+0I would actually like to see this happen, until then these are just promises.
- brisketplease, on 11/13/2009, -4/+3how DARE you!?! you should also get off the internet.
- spiralspirit, on 11/13/2009, -5/+2so where are they get all these mice with cervical cancer?
- brisketplease, on 11/13/2009, -8/+2we need to cure humans, not mice!! get your priorities straight or get off the internet!
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