I want to believe.
I’ll read the publication in the coming days and report back, but don’t get your hopes up. There’s a “breakthrough” in cancer research every few months and it leads to nothing. And this study was done in mice which are a bit different to humans (citation needed)
They cured hair loss in mice at least twenty times now and we still have bald humans
They should probably find a way to turn humans into mice. It’s a shame to leave billions of dollars on the table like that.
Might be a good concept for a sci fi story actually, probably a comedic one. Scientists learn how to cure any disease and reverse aging, but only for mice. Conveniently for plot reasons, they also figure out how to turn people into mice and back. You can get any disease cured or become young again…but you have to spend three months as a mouse.
Someone that knows what they’re doing: I will watch this show.
Why do we not simply transplant the hair from the mice, onto the humans?
Gonna need a Lotta mice
Eh a lot of them save some lives. Its just cancer is really good at killing people and there are a lot of types of cancer
I think this is overly negative. There have been multiple significant advances in cancer treatment over the past 10 years. It just depends which type you get.
How about fusion power and room temperature superconductors…
While the formulation isn’t unlike the Covid-19 vaccine, which uses lipid nanoparticles to deliver the genetic instructions to the body, it is still somewhat different. Instead of the drug encoding a virus protein, it sends a message to the immune system to rally the troops. It essentially tells the body to produce certain proteins that stimulate the immune system – including a protein within cancer cells known as PD-L1 (Programmed Death-Ligand 1), which makes tumors become more visible to immune cells.
TLDR: they are finding that it’s more effective to make cancer more visible and have the body’s immune system do its thing.
In this study on mice…
Took them 7 paragraphs to get around to mentioning that.
Hopefully, the researchers will be fully employed by the EU. I wouldn’t trust the US to not fuck up this miracle.
I was recently in a conference about synthetic biological approaches to deal with cancer. The only quote I wrote down was “this approach kills cancer in a petri dish, but so does a shotgun”
Universal Cancer Vaccine? WASTE OF MONEY, CUT IT!
-The Trump Administration!
Sweet baby Jesus, is this it? Is this finally the cure for cancer that everyone’s been waiting for?
Curing (or at least improving our treatments for) cancer would be great. There’s a small part of me that absolutely does not want to see it happen within the next few years because of the current administration. It’d still be an overwhelmingly good thing to accomplish but I dread the future arguments over the time Dr. Don and Bobby got together in the lab to cure cancer through the power of Jesus, bootstraps and grit.
But won’t the thimerosal in the cancer vaccine give everyone autism? Cancer is better than autism!
/s (duh)
