• Engineered Viruses Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
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[b]Source:[/b] [url=https://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38465/?p1=A1]Linkage[/url] [quote]A single injection of a virus that has been genetically engineered to kill cancer cells can reliably infect tumors and leave healthy tissue unharmed, according to an early stage trial of 23 patients with metastatic cancers. The findings help lay the groundwork for a new type of cancer medicine using cancer-killing viruses. Researchers injected different doses of the virus into patients with different types of metastatic cancers. After eight to 10 days, they biopsied tumor tissue from each patient and found that the virus was replicating itself in the tumors of seven of the eight patients who had received the highest dose, with no serious side effects. Several weeks after the injection, tumors in about half of the patients seemed to stop growing, and shrunk in one patient. [img]https://www.technologyreview.com/files/69574/tumor_x220.jpg[/img] One reason tumors can grow unchecked is that they suppress the immune system. However, this also makes tumor cells more susceptible to viruses, which replicate inside the infected cell until it bursts. Physicians have known for more than a century that viral infection slows tumor growth, and in recent years they've used molecular biology techniques to reëngineer more effective cancer-killing viruses. Most such viruses now in trials are injected directly into the tumor. But what researchers really need is a therapy that could be injected into the bloodstream and seek out metastasized cancer cells throughout the body, says David Kirn, chief executive officer at Jennerex, the San Francisco-based biotech company that funded the study. [/quote] Science is my hero
Nano viruse DLC. oh boy. only 99.99$ to cure your cancer.
Isn't this exactly how the movie I am Legend started.
[QUOTE=Acesarge;32111689]Isn't this exactly how the movie I am Legend started.[/QUOTE][img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvdzlrWUPV1qaasb9o1_400.jpg[/img]
and later this is never heard of again
[QUOTE=Nanamil;32111667]Nano viruse DLC. oh boy. only 99.99$ to cure your cancer.[/QUOTE] That is p. cheap. It would be like $99,999,999.99
kinda scary. I think I'd take my chances with radio/kemo before I tried this. watched too many sci-fi movies like this...
[QUOTE=Acesarge;32111689]Isn't this exactly how the movie I am Legend started.[/QUOTE] Yes... :tinfoil:
Isn't this like..that T-virus thingy.
if i am legend happens i call dibs on being will smith's dog
[QUOTE=Zeraxify;32112168]if i am legend happens i call dibs on being will smith's dog[/QUOTE] you die, and he probably makes you suck peanut butter off of his dick since he hasn't seen another person in a while
The problem with viruses is that they mutate. Otherwise, this is a pretty cheap and effective cure. All patents will probably be bought by pharmaceutical companies though, and we'll never hear of it again.
Effective probably, but I don't think genetics engineering is cheap. But building an industry around it would be great. Like automobiles.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;32112312]Effective probably, but I don't think genetics engineering is cheap. But building an industry around it would be great. Like automobiles.[/QUOTE]The initial engineering will be expensive, but after that you pretty much have an infinite supply of the virus as it replicates.
Wow we're fucked
[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;32112280]The problem with viruses is that they mutate. Otherwise, this is a pretty cheap and effective cure. All patents will probably be bought by pharmaceutical companies though, and we'll never hear of it again.[/QUOTE]Yeah, it would kind some kind of failsafe, like a non-toxic and common chemical killing it.
[QUOTE=Nerts;32112364]Yeah, it would kind some kind of failsafe, like a non-toxic and common chemical killing it.[/QUOTE]It can mutate to resist that too.
IT BEGINS
suddenly everyone knows everything about viruses.
[QUOTE=Mr. Sun;32111878]kinda scary. I think I'd take my chances with radio/kemo before I tried this. watched too many sci-fi movies like this...[/QUOTE] No. No you would not. You have no idea how fucking painful chemo is.
[QUOTE=AngryChairR;32112877]suddenly everyone knows everything about viruses.[/QUOTE] Statements made about viruses in this thread so far: They mutate. They replicate. They were in I Am Legend.
Fighting fire with fire... good idea. Now they should engineer another virus to destroy the virus that destroyed the cancer. But then we'd need another virus to destroy that virus....
First thing I thought with the headline: "I am Legend." I mean, I realize that what actually happens in the movie (people turning into vampire like monsters) would probably have no chance of happening, but there is the chance of the virus mutating.
Hah i know it's probably impossible and all but if the virus mutates into killing heart cells we've got a real life FOXDIE on our hands.
These threads always go the same way. OP I Am Legend joke "this will never be heard from again" Then it isn't.
If it is engineered, don't the people engineering it have a little bit better of a chance to battle it if it mutates?
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;32113143]Fighting fire with fire... good idea. Now they should engineer another virus to destroy the virus that destroyed the cancer. But then we'd need another virus to destroy that virus....[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zsq-s8RXGVs/TbEGL6yrbNI/AAAAAAAABuc/FjFLGlMpssA/s1600/Xzibit.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/555181[/url] nuff said
it only shrunk the tumor in one of 23 patients that's not exactly the best success as a cure
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;32114289]it only shrunk the tumor in one of 23 patients that's not exactly the best success as a cure[/QUOTE] Growth also stopped, this is a substitute for chemo/radiation, not for surgery to remove the tumors.
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