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'Universal cancer vaccine’ breakthrough claimed by scientists
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:23 am
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:23 am
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Scientists have taken a “very positive step” towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune system attack tumours as if they were a virus, experts have said.
Writing in Nature, an international team of researchers described how they had taken pieces of cancer’s genetic RNA code, put them into tiny nanoparticles of fat and then injected the mixture into the bloodstreams of three patients in the advanced stages of the disease. The patients' immune systems responded by producing "killer" T-cells designed to attack cancer.
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Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:25 am to RedRifle
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universal vaccine
This is not possible.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:25 am to RedRifle
Didn't work out so well in the hit Will Smith flick, I am Legend.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:26 am to RedRifle
100% chance some cancer cure or preventative causes a zombie apocalypse
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:26 am to RedRifle
ib4 somebody says drug companies have been sitting on this for years so they can profit off cancer
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:27 am to Cosmo
we need to combine this with that super drug from Cuba and we're set
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:28 am to RedRifle
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:29 am to RedRifle
Hell yeah! I can now fulfill that urge for a pack of Lucky Strikes.
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 8:37 am
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:30 am to Cosmo
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somebody says drug companies have been sitting on this for years so they can profit off cancer
I loathe this kind of thinking. Even if someone thinks drug companies are colluding for profits, people living much longer and getting sick from other sources is more profitable and someone dying from cancer at 60.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:36 am to slackster
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Even if someone thinks drug companies are colluding for profits, people living much longer and getting sick from other sources is more profitable and someone dying from cancer at 60.
People with any form of terminal cancer would disagree.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:37 am to hg
Hg, your sig quote is great, but you need a semi-colon, baw! It'll read better.
...end punctuation is optional, though, seeing that it is just a sig quote.
...end punctuation is optional, though, seeing that it is just a sig quote.
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 8:55 am
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:39 am to ThatMakesSense
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People with any form of terminal cancer would disagree.
People are going to either die from something down the road or live forever and run up medical bills forever. Obviously cancer is profitable, but there are ways to replace that revenue stream.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:40 am to lsufan9193969700
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simi-colon
Oh dear.
I suppose we should all start looking for Dodge Himi engines now. Doesn't quite sound quite so manly though.
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 8:42 am
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:41 am to SlowFlowPro
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we need to combine this with that super drug from Cuba and we're set
Isn't that where shark cartilage as a treatment for cancer came from? I mean I was for it, anyway, because, hey, dead shark, right?
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:42 am to RedRifle
If true, this is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs ever. Bravo
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:44 am to RedRifle
I've googled just about every keyword in that story and the most mainstream news outlet I've found covering it was yahoo. And even the yahoo link went to a local news station Australia.
So is this click bait or actually promising research?
So is this click bait or actually promising research?
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 8:45 am
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:47 am to slackster
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quote:
somebody says drug companies have been sitting on this for years so they can profit off cancer
I loathe this kind of thinking. Even if someone thinks drug companies are colluding for profits, people living much longer and getting sick from other sources is more profitable and someone dying from cancer at 60.
and would they do that to their own relatives, to themselves? I do know people who believe this, so strange
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:51 am to RedRifle
Nature is a really good magazine, but it's expensive as frick IIRC
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:52 am to Hooligan's Ghost
I work in the cancer field. Its not just drugs. Doctors, nurses, therapists, treatment centers, physicists, equipment, scanners, tx machines, etc. We are talking hundreds of billions per year in cancer tx.
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