Posted on 05/14/2007 7:20:55 PM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
NORMAN, Okla. - Two professors at the University of Oklahoma say they've developed a protein that can stop the spread of certain cancer cells without damaging normal cells.
Thomas Pento and Roger Harrison helped develop a fusion protein that keeps some types of cancer cells from ingesting a vital protein called methionine. The fusion protein doesn't affect normal cells because, unlike cancer cells, they can be healthy without that protein.
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i hope this isnt like every other “breakthrough” that comes out and is never heard from again.
If true, this would be a wonderful thing.
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This is very interesting.
Did Laura have her ultrasound?
This simply cannot be true. No advancement in medicine can be discovered without the use of federally funded embryonic stem cells. /sar
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Endostatin cost too much to produce, but had a number of people on clinical trials living with various cancers.
AFAIK Dr. Luo Yongzhang, founder of Endostar and specializing in protein folding, is working with U.S. pharmaceutical companies on licensing Endostatin. He's developed a way to produce it much cheaper and more efficiently. source, for all interested.
Angiostatin's status is less certain, although in one patient it had the pleasant side-effect of curing her psoriasis - something for which no known cure previously existed.
I don't recall reading of any drastic side effects with either drug, as both Endostatin and Angiostatin are produced naturally by the human body.
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The writer of the article has something wrong. Methionine is an amino acid, a building block of proteins, not a protein. Also stopping a viral protein attaching to a cell should not affect cancer cells because almost all cancers are NOT caused by viruses (HPV causing cervical cancer being the exception).
The person writing the article left out a lot and/or has very little or no biology background.
I’ll wait to see a scientific journal article on it before saying it is promising or not.
Start trying this on patients and the bureaucrats at the FDA will throw you in jail. It’ll be 12 years and 1 billion bucks to get this to market thanks to our politicians and the folks at the FDA.
http://www.neoperspectives.com/fda_tyranny.htm
This is something I learned from the stem cell debate...
It may be that this protein is related to stem cells...
There is evidence of a viral link to breast cancer, colon cancer, and possibly stomach cancer.
The more research is done, the more links between various viruses and cancer are found.
Just to clarify, the article said vital -- as in essential -- not viral, and went on to say that normal cells don't need it (so it would not be vital to noncancerous cells).
thanks, bfl
cancer needs to be understood with ‘systems’ biology methods— it appears that only a limited number of neoplasias and/or cancer stages will be controlled by any single drug — cancer immunotherapies are of interest since at least they generate ‘system’ responses e.g. with 100’s or 1000’s of different antibodies
i hope this isnt like every other “breakthrough” that comes out and is never heard from again.”
Cancer research is a multi billion dollar business.
Cancer treatment is likewise a multi billion dollar business.
A cure would end research and most treatment.
They learned their lesson with polio.
“We cured polio...... Whoops”
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