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saturn
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 03:53 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Interesting.....

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,128 ... _tophead_1

Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks cancer tumors in mice.

.......The UCLA AIDS Institute scientists genetically altered HIV and folded it into an envelope made of another virus called sindbis, which typically infects insects and birds. That turned the altered HIV into a missile that hunted down metastasized melanoma cells in the lungs of living mice.......
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 03:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That shit creeps me out.
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 06:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I read this a little earlier today. It's pretty cool. I remember doing a research paper on Hodgkins lymphoma and this was one of the potential treatments that they hoped was (in theory) on the horizon. It looks like they're a couple steps closer. I also spoke with a scientist who studies ways to target cancer cells (he used antibodies to carry drugs to them, not HIV...) and he mentioned the potential of this, too. So, GG to these researchers. :icon14:

I also liked that they noted they won't try this in humans until they have it perfected. That should help keep naysayers down...
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 06:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


no wonder there are so many fags. they never die of cancer.
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 06:15 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


poor mice :(



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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 06:18 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


signa wrote:
no wonder there are so many fags. they never die of cancer.


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saturn
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 12:17 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


werldhed wrote:
I read this a little earlier today. It's pretty cool. I remember doing a research paper on Hodgkins lymphoma and this was one of the potential treatments that they hoped was (in theory) on the horizon. It looks like they're a couple steps closer. I also spoke with a scientist who studies ways to target cancer cells (he used antibodies to carry drugs to them, not HIV...) and he mentioned the potential of this, too. So, GG to these researchers. :icon14:

I also liked that they noted they won't try this in humans until they have it perfected. That should help keep naysayers down...


I thought antibodies were the way to deliver chemo to the cancercells, but this has definetely potential. Especially in fast-growing hemological cancers with known markers and receptors. Some cancers will remain very difficult to treat for a very long time (like gastric and pancreatic cancer).
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 12:18 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


signa wrote:
no wonder there are so many fags. they never die of cancer.


lmao
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 01:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Wow, this could be huge.
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 01:32 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


fucked up shit



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 01:33 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Aids-cancer. :icon19:
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 02:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


signa wrote:
no wonder there are so many fags. they never die of cancer.


a good laugh :smirk:
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