JCC Scientists may have found Cancer's silver bullet.

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"Weissman's team has received a $20 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to move the findings from mouse studies to human safety tests. "We have enough data already," says Weissman, "that I can say I'm confident that this will move to phase I human trials." "

QUICK, call Iain M. Banks. If I were him I'd volunteer. I want another Culture novel.

 

Interesting, but I'm not getting too hopeful. There's still a long way to go between this and safe, practical use for humans.

 

[Vivec]This is stupid and it will never ever work. Don't hope for anything good to come of this at all.[/Vivec]

 

Similar articles popped up in the early days of the antiangiogenic drug research. Some of these VEGF blocking meds are decent cancer drugs and have other applications as well, e.g. for people with age-related macular degeneration. They may be the reason your 85 year old grandmother isn't completely blind, but they're not exactly miracle drugs.

 

As much as I'm sure it's fun to mock skeptics (ironic that it comes from the atheism 'le logic and le reason' crowd), I'm actually going to defer to J-dub for this one.

 

It's an interesting characteristic of the internet that some people often go to great lengths to craft the persona of cynical snob.

 

Well, if the New York Post reports it, it must be true.

 

nononononononono **** **** **** ********** **** **** **** no

i didnt know he was sick

 

Interesting how the date on the second article is from March of 2012.

Otherwise known as "old news."

 

**** **** **** **** AAAAHHHHH

"The bottom line, now, I’m afraid, is that as a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I’m expected to live for ‘several months’ and it’s extremely unlikely I’ll live beyond a year. So it looks like my latest novel, The Quarry, will be my last."

montie i cant believe i had to find out about this ******* devastating news in a ****** **** perennial fake cancer/aids/micropenis cure thread. **** everything

 

To Hell with curing cancer in humans... the big breakthrough news is that scientists have learned how to successfully transplant
human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors into mice.



Onward to the stars, ladies and gentlemen. Onward to the stars.

 

I have this very slight hope that he has like notes so detailed that another author could not possibly screw it up. But then I think of everything I have heard about post-Herbert Dune and SW EU, and well...

 

what makes you think he even has notes? the culture series isnt like a saga building to some sort of conclusion. he just writes them when he has a good idea for one, and they almost never have any narrative connection to one another at all. why do we need more novels from some other author? seems pointless to me.

 

Just that I'm sure he has story ideas for years to come.

 

yes but why try to transplant them onto someone else? it seems like the grossest commodification and misunderstanding of art to me. like i could understand if it were an ongoing saga that demanded a resolution for people who had been following it, like with robert jordan or when george rr martin chokes on a ham sandwich in two years after having written 25 pages of the Winds of Winter, but to demand that this Culture setting of banks' be run into the ground by some other author simply because there might have been more of them IF he had lived to write them... its icky

especially given how unique Banks' style is. who could even hope to approach a successful pantomime of the way a Banks story, a Banks thought, feels when its bouncing around inside your mind?

 

Thinking that the warp drive is unrealistic is clearly cynical snobbery.

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Oh don't get me wrong, 99.99% of me says I hope they just leave it alone.

 

As long as people don't turn into poorly CGI'd vampires, this is good news.

 

They announce something like this every few months. Time will tell.

 

wow. darth ghost as the voice of reason. this is a new low for chancellor ewok, vlm and company

that's like if arlon or j-rod corrected me on ethnographic minutiae

 

And then we'll find out it's incredibly toxic to humans.

Or worse, it'll be fine during testing, be released, save tons of lives and then a paper will be published showing a very tentative link towards developing autism in kids and everyone will stop using it before the responses are published which show through statistical analysis that the first paper is a pile of poop.

Science.

 

The difference between cautionary skepticism and cynical snobbery is tone, not content.

 

Tone arguments woooo!

 

Your maturity and wisdom knows no bounds, Sean.