Posted on 01/10/2009 6:52:56 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan 9 (Reuters) - The first drug made using genetically engineered animals to near U.S. approval won key support on Friday from an advisory panel that judged it safe and effective despite concerns from groups worried about the genetic tinkering.
GTC Biotherapeutics Inc's (GTCB.O) experimental anticlotting therapy, called Atryn, is made using a human protein gathered from female goats bred to produce it in their milk.
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Diabetics have been injecting themselves with insulin produced from genetically altered plants... infused with human genes, for years, IIRC.
Yet another example of genetic research being put to a useful result and potentially saving lives.
“...those who don’t understand science will lie like the global warming nutcases to scare people...”
I’m hopeful as well, but I was involved in genetic research for several years and know PhDs who aren’t convinced that genetic manipulation can’t have disastrous consequences. There are potential adverse downstream interactions that are unpredictable by any available modeling.
Your point is?
You have now been shows a real world example of genetic research - now - in the future - you will be unable to say that genetic research hasn’t produced any usable results.
To the extent that genetic research is used to produce synthetic drugs, it can only be a disaster for Americans health. - It will spur a dramatic uptick in new cancers; this is because the base cause of most cancers is the ingestion, or injection of non-life substances.
Our preindustrial population had little or no exposure to cancer, but the diet, and medicine of the industrial age are loaded with non-food, and non-life medications, all of which cause cancer.
And the net result of that has been for people to become content to remain in their diseased condition, and treat symptoms, rather than seeking the cure of their condition. - Who knows how many man-years of life have been lost, and how many productive years of life have been lost for this cause.
“Our preindustrial population had little or no exposure to cancer”
Might be because most died from something else before cancer could kill them.
Children are BORN with cancer these days! (Majority of retnoblastomas ocurr in unborn children)
Children have been born with cancer for tens of thousands of years.
You cannot support that ridiculous statement with a shred of evidence.
Cancer is an industrial age disease.
Oldest Descriptions of Cancer
Cancer has afflicted humans throughout recorded history. It is no surprise that from the dawn of history doctors have written about cancer. Some of the earliest evidence of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors, human mummies in ancient Egypt, and ancient manuscripts. Bone remains of mummies have revealed growths suggestive of the bone cancer, osteosarcoma. In other cases, bony skull destruction as seen in cancer of the head and neck has been found.
Our oldest description of cancer (although the term cancer was not used) was discovered in Egypt and dates back to approximately 1600 B.C. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, or writing, describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were treated by cauterization, with a tool called “the fire drill.” The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”
Origin of the Word Cancer
The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), considered the “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek these words refer to a crab, most likely applied to the disease because the finger-like spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. Carcinoma is the most common type of cancer.
Renaissance Period
During the Renaissance, beginning in the 15th century, scientists in Italy developed a greater understanding of the human body. Scientists such as Galileo and Newton began to use the scientific method, which later began to be used to study disease. Autopsies, performed by Harvey (1628), allowed an understanding of the circulation of blood through the heart and body that had remained a mystery.
In 1761, Giovanni Morgagni of Padua was the first to do something considered routine today. He performed autopsies to relate the patient’s illness to the pathologic findings after death. This laid the foundation for scientific oncology, the study of cancer.
The famous Scottish surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) suggested that some cancers might be cured by surgery and described how the surgeon might decide which cancers to operate on. If the tumor had not invaded nearby tissue and was “moveable,” he said, “There is no impropriety in removing it.”
A century later the development of anesthesia allowed surgery to flourish and the classic cancer operations such as radical mastectomy were developed.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_the_history_of_cancer_72.asp
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From the linked article:
“Believe it or not, cancer has afflicted people for several centuries.”
IOW, Cancer is an Industrial Age disease.
How surprising that a licensed medical killer would support the killing tools!
Whooda thunk it?
Then how did the Egyptians know about it?
They didn’t
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