Cancer breakthrough stuns scientific world

itechnology ^ | September 05 2002 at 08:26PM | Steve Connor

[realpatriot71]

Why AIDS patients?

Because HIV is a retrovirus.

[Protagoras]

I don't blame you.

Now I ask this; if a person is terminal, how do you make that worse if their desire is for an experimental drug?

[MHGinTN]

I'm wondering what the source of the RNA used for human trials will be; will this be yet another 'reason' to destroy human embryos, to harvest the RNA?

[andy_card]

all good things come from God it was there all along,we only now found it

Huh? Actually, this technique was invented in a lab, by human beings. And if you think all good things come from God, then He must also be the cause of Ebola, leprosy and hemophillia.

[vin-one]

judge not Chachacha,

[snippy_about_it]

Your posts are revealing. You are soooo ignorant.

[realpatriot71]

Now I ask this; if a person is terminal, how do you make that worse if their desire is for an experimental drug?

For me it will be an issue of how far along the research is. If the research looks good, but the drug isn't "official" yet, I would give my patient the drug, if they asked (and myabe I'd even bring it up), as long as they understood it was still "experimental".

I don't think I could, in good faith, give an experiemental drug to someone right out of the first cell culture experiments.

[realpatriot71]

will this be yet another 'reason' to destroy human embryos, to harvest the RNA?

Nope

[andy_card]

We'll be sure to deny you medical treatment when you get sick. If you have your god's favor, he'll surely protect you. Right?

Maroon.

[Protagoras]

I don't think I could, in good faith, give an experiemental drug to someone right out of the first cell culture experiments.

Me either, but all of this is quite beside my point. About which we apparently agree. Namely that the decision should be made by the patient. The doctor should make his own decisions too.

[cactusSharp]

bllod not gettin' to your
brain today huh

[rambo316]

For one thing TIGHTEN, how could you say people with AIDS have just as much rights as cancer patients? That statement that you made is idiotic. For one thing, AIDS is a behavioral disease and it started in the queer crowd and that is a fact. The way it was passed on to normal, straight people was that individuals, immoral individuals who claimed to like both men and women, passed it on to their spouses or significant other. Then you had these same immoral people pass it on through blood transfusions.

Don't get me wrong, the poor little, innocent babies and all the individuals who were infected intentionally by these immoral individuals that carry the behavioral disease, AIDS, should be helped. But that is it.

[chachacha]

Absolutely right. I know him! Do you?

[chachacha]

Not judging. "repeating"

[chachacha]

Not judging. "repeating"

[537 Votes]

An available treatment may be 15 years away.

Thank the FDA on your way out.

I understand where you're coming from, but bureaucracies have a way of fast-tracking things when there's enough public clamor.

[MHGinTN]

I was noting from the article linked: They first showed that siRNAs are produced even in the absence of RNAi using Drosophila embryo extract. How will the RNAi be derived?... From human embryos?

[chachacha]

Lets pretend GOD is giving injections to cure cancer and the first in line is a practicing gay who got aids from his ALTERNATIVE LIFE STYLE. The next person in line was one who did not practice this ALTERNATIVE LIFE STYLE and listened to what GOD preached against.

Who would he give the cure to?

Lets let GOD sort it all out.

[andy_card]

I was noting from the article linked: They first showed that siRNAs are produced even in the absence of RNAi using Drosophila embryo extract. How will the RNAi be derived?... From human embryos?

Brilliant. Drosophila is a fruit fly. Unless fruit flies exist in the gut of human embryos, I think you're nuts.

[al_c]

She's got a great, though clearly dark, sense of humor.

God a she? I seem to remember that somewhere in the Bible Jesus called God "Father." Silly me ... I guess I misread that. < /sarcasm >