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1 posted on 04/23/2007 11:21:57 AM PDT by Rennes Templar

To: Rennes Templar

Is that what Paul Harvey was talking about this morning, when he said the treatment should be available in three years?

2 posted on 04/23/2007 11:24:09 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)

To: Rennes Templar

Interesting. Bump for later read to hubby.

3 posted on 04/23/2007 11:25:14 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz

To: Rennes Templar

Excellent. Fantastic news.

4 posted on 04/23/2007 11:27:33 AM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)

To: Rennes Templar

OOps. That won’t get much air time here. Too many pharmaceutical companies and doctors with too much to lose.

5 posted on 04/23/2007 11:29:17 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))

To: Rennes Templar

Apparently the DCA cannot be patented, and so they are having trouble coming up with funding for the clinical trials.

6 posted on 04/23/2007 11:29:59 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)

To: Rennes Templar

God Speed, Dr. Evangelos Michelakis! Please!...........

8 posted on 04/23/2007 11:31:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)

To: Rennes Templar; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...

Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

11 posted on 04/23/2007 11:35:19 AM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)

To: Rennes Templar

Ping!

This is AWESOME!!!!

21 posted on 04/23/2007 11:58:03 AM PDT by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)

To: Rennes Templar

Until recently, researchers believed that cancer-affected mitochondria are permanently damaged and that this damage is the result, not the cause, of the cancer.

So a majority of scientists agree. We have consensus. The debate is over.

But Michelakis, a cardiologist, questioned this belief and began testing DCA, which activates a critical mitochondrial enzyme, as a way to "revive" cancer-affected mitochondria.

Crazy! Crackpot! He's just like a holocaust denier!

The results astounded him.

Michelakis and his colleagues found that DCA normalized the mitochondrial function in many cancers, showing that their function was actively suppressed by the cancer but was not permanently damaged by it.

More importantly, they found that the normalization of mitochondrial function resulted in a significant decrease in tumor growth both in test tubes and in animal models. Also, they noted that DCA, unlike most currently used chemotherapies, did not have any effects on normal, non-cancerous tissues.

Whaaaa...?! Scientific consensus was maybe not correct? Hmmm.

22 posted on 04/23/2007 12:07:45 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)

To: Rennes Templar

The University of Alberta seems to be to science what the University of Florida is to sports. Those particular Canucks come out with good stuff regularly.

23 posted on 04/23/2007 12:10:06 PM PDT by gcruse

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26 posted on 04/23/2007 12:52:36 PM PDT by phs3 (If you call a terrorist a freedom fighter, I call you the enemy.)

To: Rennes Templar

28 posted on 04/23/2007 12:58:20 PM PDT by A. Pole (" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! Bazaar Akbar! ")

To: Rennes Templar

Don’t get too excited about every year some new compound wipes out tumors in vitro or animal models. Lets see what happens in humans.

32 posted on 04/23/2007 2:06:07 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))

To: Rennes Templar

And REALLY cheap...look here...

35 posted on 04/23/2007 3:35:52 PM PDT by redhead (Fishing in Alaska is like fishing in Heaven...)

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