Cancer Curing Blood

SciCentral News ^ | June 7, 2006 | by Eva Gladek and Joyce Gramza

[wideawake]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting it.

[edpc]

If PETA types had their way, research like this would never occur.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

If this comes to fruition in human studies, I can see how the Chicoms are going to go about this.

They will take blood samples from all hard labor camp inmates, find the "good" ones, and suck 'em dry !

[ASOC]

What was the name of that old TV show...The Immortal?

"A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive" Cool cars, bad acting.

How will the folks 'discover' the person with cancer resistant cells? Force all school children to take 'the test'?

Do it on the sly with the slimy pharmacy company exec making millions (or billions)... If you have the majic blood - will you be forced to "donate" for the greater good? Get drafted?

What for the new series, starring the Hildibeast, the Murthacrat and a cast of 100 porksters.

Yeah, I could write this stuff.

[From many - one.]

No, they won't suck 'em dry. They'd bleed them regularly so as to get t most out of them.

Depending on what percent of them have the factor.

I wonder if blood typing would be a factor.

[Xenalyte]

Cancer Curing Blood

Why does blood need curing, and how does cancer do the trick?

[djreece]

A funder of the study, the Cancer Research Institute, which backs immunological approaches to cancer diagnosis and treatment, is funding collaborations with Bruce Beutler, M.D., an immunogeneticist at the Scripps Research Institute, to help search for the gene, and with Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., a molecular immunopathologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who will test the cancer-resistant cells on his mouse models of naturally arising cancers.

Marking.

[GovernmentShrinker]

They should try this theory with the AIDS-resistant humans who have already been identified. There have been a number of well-documented cases -- one I recall was a woman who had been very actively working as a prostitute for many years in an African town where the AIDS infection rate was something like 80%, but still wasn't infected herself.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I wonder if blood typing would be a factor.

Not likely, since blood types (i.e. A, B, AB, O) are based on proteins on the surfaces of red blood cells, while this treatment uses only white blood cells.

[From many - one.]

Of course you are correct.

Sometimes there's just not enough caffeine to wake me up.

[traderrob6]

This is the second article I've seen on this.....very interesting.

[aimhigh]

But he also acknowledges that he is having a hard time getting funding for this approach.

The chemo industry isn't smiling at this.

[Digger]

There isn't any reason to think it's not a single gene, it just turns out that analysis of that genetics is somewhat more complex than one would have predicted,"

The industry has it figured out. Hang out the carrot (more money for research) but pull the strings.

[dljordan]

If it's true, the drug companies, AMA, FDA and healthcare corporations will kill this dead.

[sono]

Maybe the folks at Wake Forest could simply get the gene from this guy.

[aculeus]

If it's true, the drug companies, AMA, FDA and healthcare corporations will kill this dead.

I don't think so.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

No, they won't suck 'em dry. They'd bleed them regularly so as to get t most out of them.

Well of course I didn't mean that literally. They would 'milk' (ie bleed) them till they are all pale and about to pass out. Following which they will be put on a nutritous all 'roach and dead rodent diet until they are plump and ready to be bled again.. ad-inf.. Not to mention they would also be force bred with similar women until they produced enough offsprings with similar genetic characteristics.

First in line(and perhaps only?) to receive the magic blood would be the Communist Party bosses. After all what does the govt gain by having the general populace live longer, when they are trying their utmost to get rid off as many.

[MHGinTN]

"The researchers also developed a blood test that can identify the cancer-resistant mice without having to challenge them with cancer. They hope a similar test might help find and study cancer-resistance in people." This reminds me of a roommate in college; he was a Cherokee Indian whose family were immune to tooth decay ... never a cavity in him or his immediate relatives. Perhaps the resistance arises from an ability of the immune system to recognize a protein common to the membrane of cancer cells. It will be interesting to see how this develops. Finding the humans with immunity should be interesting also ... a clue might be finding people who reach their eighties having smoked their entire adult lives without developing lung or throat/mouth cancer. I mean, talk about a group of people challenged with cancinogens!

[MHGinTN]

A link in aids resistance people has already been found ... has something to do with persons descended from folks whose ancestors were not killed off in the great plagues of Europe. I'll see if I can find the articles for you ...