[DannyTN]

Who wakes up in the morning and thinks, “You know, if I modify that polio virus, I bet I can get it to kill cancer cells!!!”

[beef]

I have seen a lot of potential miracle cures for cancer come and go. It stands to reason that some day one of them will work well and for a lot of different cancers. Maybe this is the one.

[Gamecock]

A genius!

[headstamp 2]

Yep, it’s called innovation and I hate to think what ObamaCare is going to ultimately do to things like this.

[MHGinTN]

I contracted polio at age two (1947). It attacks the myelin sheath tissue around nerves. If the tissue in the blastoma is likened to the myelin sheath then it stands to reason it would attack that. I wonder, the girl’s age is such that she was vaccinated for polio, so the virus would not work against her tissues; but the cancer blastoma is not her tissue!

[central_va]

Polio attacks the healthy CNS tissue so a modified virus that attacks only mutant tissue isn’t that far fetched.

[Timocrat]

Who wakes up in the morning and thinks, “You know, if I modify that polio virus, I bet I can get it to kill cancer cells!!!”

Future Nobel Prize winners who don't believe in "The Science is Settled"

[exDemMom]

Who wakes up in the morning and thinks, “You know, if I modify that polio virus, I bet I can get it to kill cancer cells!!!”

Actually, those of us who have advanced degrees in subjects like molecular biology, microbiology, etc., have thoughts like that all the time.

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