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[QUOTE]Scientists have been surprised by the rapid cancer-fighting properties of a berry found only in Far North Queensland.
An eight-year study led by Dr Glen Boyle, from the QIMR Berghofer medical research institute in Brisbane, found a compound in the berry could kill head and neck tumours as well as melanomas.
An experimental drug derived from the berry, EBC-46, has so far been used on 300 animals, including cats, dogs and horses.
Dr Boyle said in 75 per cent of cases, the tumour disappeared and had not come back.
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[B]ABC Australia: [/B][URL]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07/queensland-scientists-discover-cancer-fighting-berry/5796106[/URL]
Just a heads-up, the article has a photo of a dog with a tumour on its face as a before & after comparison thing. Also this seems pretty damn cool, hopefully they can make the blushwood tree grow in different climates.
Nature is radical.
if you disagree, you're lame.
its as if nature was like "Okay, enough is enough"
I'm hoping this will one day make chemotherapy obsolete, from what I heard, shit reaches inhumane levels of painful.
And this is why we need more conservation in the world. Nature provides us with all kinds of awesome shit which we can use.
Or we can fuck it all up.
The guy in charge of the study's mentioned it's probably not going to be very effective against metastatic tumors though, but anything's better than nothing. Imagine how helpful this will be to reduce the requirements for chemo and radiation treatment.
Remarkable, I know. Kinda reminds me of that one Venture Bros episode too, where Rusty and the family go into the jungle and discover Solomon's Heart, a remarkably similar fruit with similar properties and a penchant for only growing in certain places.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V74Ts0eh7A[/media]
Man, i wished they would've discovered this alot faster.
(One of my friends passed away last spring in cancer, it was a type of melanoma, RIP mate, RIP...)
My dog could use this. I doubt it will be available before she passes though. She's lived a long and happy life as is though.
I so hope we're on to something here. Learn what makes them work, make it better and get that shit into pill form.
[url]http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0108887[/url]
Study for ya'll.
I'm kind of curious how it tastes as well
[QUOTE=Pokeman493;46175101]I'm hoping this will one day make chemotherapy obsolete, from what I heard, shit reaches inhumane levels of painful.[/QUOTE]
Put it this way, it's pretty much literally just poisoning yourself and hoping the poison kills the cancer before it kills you.
Everything in Australia really fights everything, doesn't it?
[QUOTE=Showgun;46175098]its as if nature was like "Okay, enough is enough"[/QUOTE]
That's sorta the rule of nature. If anything destructive appears, something that's healing appears. No darkness without light and all.
Welcome to evolution, it's a wonderful thing.
[QUOTE=AkujiTheSniper;46175329]I'm kind of curious how it tastes as well[/QUOTE]
As long as it cures cancer no one gives a shit.
So now we can make a healing potion.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46175820]That's sorta the rule of nature. If anything destructive appears, something that's healing appears. No darkness without light and all.
Welcome to evolution, it's a wonderful thing.[/QUOTE]
That's... That's not how.... What...?
Are you implying nature is sentient and is actively balancing every positive with every negative?
[QUOTE=Miskav;46176083]That's... That's not how.... What...?
Are you implying nature is sentient and is actively balancing every positive with every negative?[/QUOTE]
Nature and evolution is very much RNG, not only in the random fusion of chromosomes, but also in factors like weather, other organisms in the local environment, the gradual geological changes of said environment, exposure to mutagens (radiation and free radicals), whatever massive black stone falls out of the sky and uplifts the nearest suitable lifeforms, that kinda stuff.
The fact that the seeds of the blushwood berry hold chemicals that can help cure cancer is sheer luck. Even if we discovered a tiny fish that we could put in our earholes and understand any form of speech in the universe, it would likely still be because of billions of years of random chance.
Typically it would show up in Australia.
The one thing that isn't deadly to us is deadly to cancer.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46175820]That's sorta the rule of nature. If anything destructive appears, something that's healing appears. No darkness without light and all.
Welcome to evolution, it's a wonderful thing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah no nature doesn't give a solitary fuck about anything like that, there's dick all balance, there's just what works and what doesn't.
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[QUOTE=ironman17;46176111]Nature and evolution is very much RNG, not only in the random fusion of chromosomes, but also in factors like weather, other organisms in the local environment, the gradual geological changes of said environment, exposure to mutagens (radiation and free radicals), whatever massive black stone falls out of the sky and uplifts the nearest suitable lifeforms, that kinda stuff.
The fact that the seeds of the blushwood berry hold chemicals that can help cure cancer is sheer luck. Even if we discovered a tiny fish that we could put in our earholes and understand any form of speech in the universe, it would likely still be because of billions of years of random chance.[/QUOTE]
Stars will be born and die before a babblefish naturally evolves, anywhere.
Doesn't cannabis help fight cancer or is that called as BS.
[QUOTE=bravehat;46176247]Stars will be born and die before a babblefish naturally evolves, anywhere.[/QUOTE]
Well they already have, haven't they? There are multiple generations of stars, and whilst Gen 3 stars were just simple elements, Generations 2 and 1 were made of more complex elements. Billions of years have passed since the birth of our own star alone, and in those billions of years we've had weird things on Earth alone. Nothing as complex and eerily "considered" as a babel fish, but still plenty of strange stuff.
That said if there was ever a fish that could translate any language, it would probably have been designed as a nanite-based cyborg by sufficiently advanced aliens.
[QUOTE=Seriousshakey;46176269]Doesn't cannabis help fight cancer or is that called as BS.[/QUOTE]
Certain cannabinoids do have a beneficial effect against a variety of tumours, there was a compound which helped lung cacners, not sure by how much but that was a thing, and there's a new compound been found which might be helpful with colon cancer.
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[QUOTE=ironman17;46176311]Well they already have, haven't they? There are multiple generations of stars, and whilst Gen 3 stars were just simple elements, Generations 2 and 1 were made of more complex elements. Billions of years have passed since the birth of our own star alone, and in those billions of years we've had weird things on Earth alone. Nothing as complex and eerily "considered" as a babel fish, but still plenty of strange stuff.
That said if there was ever a fish that could translate any language, it would probably have been designed as a nanite-based cyborg by sufficiently advanced aliens.[/QUOTE]
Well the thing is, if you mean Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy type fish, then literally never because it would have to somehow translate all the alien languages of the universe, again impossible, or so unlikely that entire universes would be born and die in the time it would take them to evolve to say hello.
[QUOTE=Seriousshakey;46176269]Doesn't cannabis help fight cancer or is that called as BS.[/QUOTE]
Cannabis has nothing to do with this aside from that both it and the subject of this article are plants. Aside from that, a few cannabinoids have been shown to have "anti-cancer properties". There's a tremendous amount of misinformation out there though. Smoking will likely do your physical health more harm than good. When researchers talk about Cannabis and cancer, they generally are working with isolated compounds from the plant.
Figures Australia would have it, while all of that country is trying to kill you, it has something to fight against something that can kill all of us.
Have one with every Winnie blue and you'll be bonza, mate. Fair dinkum
Just waiting for the lobbyists to step in and fuck this study up with bullshit controversy.
This will upset the billion $$$ cancer industry for sure.
[QUOTE=Dr. Haxx;46177186]Just waiting for the lobbyists to step in and fuck this study up with bullshit controversy.
This will upset the billion $$$ cancer industry for sure.[/QUOTE]
Why would it upset them? It's just another drug. Whoever ends up manufacturing it (assuming it passes trials and testing) is going to be a company from the cancer industry.
[QUOTE=Dr. Haxx;46177186]Just waiting for the lobbyists to step in and fuck this study up with bullshit controversy.
This will upset the billion $$$ cancer industry for sure.[/QUOTE]
Lol what?
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