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khrath
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 Posted: 02/14/05 - 14:16 Post subject: The cure for cancer, genetically modified HIV
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The UCLA AIDS Institute scientists genetically altered HIV and folded it into an envelope made of another virus called sindbis, which typically infects insects and birds. That turned the altered HIV into a missile that hunted down metastasized melanoma cells(cancer cells) in the lungs of living mice.
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Full story here
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66579,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
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Paco
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 14:17 Post subject:
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sweet
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Callaren
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Location: South Jersey
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 15:06 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | The scientists also inserted a glowing firefly protein into the virus to track its progress. |
Lol, reminds me of a show I saw yesterday on The Science Channel. They added jellyfish protein/DNA/RNA (I forgot exactly) to a mouse and the mouse was glowing in the dark, especially in the eyes.
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kbarr
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 15:11 Post subject:
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One day I will glow.
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khrath
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 15:19 Post subject:
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yah, right after china drops a nuke 10 miles from your house =p
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kbarr
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 15:34 Post subject:
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| khrath wrote: | | yah, right after china drops a nuke 10 miles from your house =p |
I have a bomb shelter!
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lotek
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 16:36 Post subject:
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yay for buttsex?
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Asassin
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 17:34 Post subject:
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man walks into the doctors office. doctor says to him "well sir, you have two choices". man sighs as he says "i'm dying aren't i?" doctor says "i can cure your cancer". man goes hysterical that his cancer can be cured. doctor then says "the treatment is me giving you altered HIV".
which do you want to die by? Cancer or altered HIV.
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themy
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 17:38 Post subject:
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| Asassin wrote: | man walks into the doctors office. doctor says to him "well sir, you have two choices". man sighs as he says "i'm dying aren't i?" doctor says "i can cure your cancer". man goes hysterical that his cancer can be cured. doctor then says "the treatment is me giving you altered HIV".
which do you want to die by? Cancer or altered HIV. |
that would have bean a little funny if the altered HIV would have actually hurt someone's immune system and not just kill the cancer cells.
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Occulis
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 17:46 Post subject:
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God damn, some of you people are dumb.
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Aluaeia
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 17:53 Post subject:
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Altered HUMAN Immunodeficiency Virus cures cancer in MICE.
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Orison
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 17:56 Post subject:
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Pretty sick. Use one of the worlds most deadly diseases to cure another of the most deadly diseases. Irony. 
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:22 Post subject:
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| Code: | | Breach in containment Sectors 4...7..8 |
Scientist: "thats...IMPOSSIBLE!"
Computer voice:
| Code: | | initiating lockdown quarantine protocol |
Scientist: "You dont understand! The virus in sector 8 was engineered to attack its host with maximum aggression BUT THAT STRAIN HASNT BEEN MODIFIED TO ATTACK ONLY CANCEROUS CELLS
Cute Girl in labcoat: "But that means..."
Both start choking and fall over dead
cut to cars crashing in the streets as the sun slowly sets
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Renork
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:29 Post subject:
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| Jack Crow wrote: | | Code: | | Breach in containment Sectors 4...7..8 |
Scientist: "thats...IMPOSSIBLE!"
Computer voice:
| Code: | | initiating lockdown quarantine protocol |
Scientist: "You dont understand! The virus in sector 8 was engineered to attack its host with maximum aggression BUT THAT STRAIN HASNT BEEN MODIFIED TO ATTACK ONLY CANCEROUS CELLS
Cute Girl in labcoat: "But that means..."
Both start choking and fall over dead
cut to cars crashing in the streets as the sun slowly sets |
Its Teh SuperFlue!!!
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sinrakin
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:33 Post subject:
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If we take God's punishment for gayness and use it to cure cancer, he's going to be soooo p****d I don't even want to think about what he might do.
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Occulis
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:34 Post subject:
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Jack, are you advocating avoiding experimental drugs based on your fears? It's okay. A lot of people oppose things like penicillin, aspirin and kidney dialysis because of their potential dangers, too.
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Overon
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:40 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | Jack, are you advocating avoiding experimental drugs based on your fears? It's okay. A lot of people oppose things like penicillin, aspirin and kidney dialysis because of their potential dangers, too. |
experimental drugs need time before they are used
my grandmother probably died because oops, the drug she was taking causes spontaneous heart attacks ... they recalled it shortly after ..
what was it again, procrit or something ...
these companies make fucktons of cash on new drugs .. they don't bother spending real time to test them .. why? because its inefficient
i mean really, if you're supposed to take a drug every day for the rest of your life, and they didn't spend 20-40+ years testing it (they probably didn't spend more than 5) .. how are you to know what it could do to you in the long run?
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Brael
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:40 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | If we take God's punishment for gayness and use it to cure cancer, he's going to be soooo p****d I don't even want to think about what he might do. |
Maybe it's God endorsing gayness by giving us the cure for cancer?
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Brael
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:43 Post subject:
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| Overon wrote: | | Occulis wrote: | | Jack, are you advocating avoiding experimental drugs based on your fears? It's okay. A lot of people oppose things like penicillin, aspirin and kidney dialysis because of their potential dangers, too. |
experimental drugs need time before they are used
my grandmother probably died because oops, the drug she was taking causes spontaneous heart attacks ... they recalled it shortly after ..
what was it again, procrit or something ...
these companies make fucktons of cash on new drugs .. they don't bother spending real time to test them .. why? because its inefficient
i mean really, if you're supposed to take a drug every day for the rest of your life, and they didn't spend 20-40+ years testing it (they probably didn't spend more than 5) .. how are you to know what it could do to you in the long run? |
If you spent a lifetime testing drugs (thats the only way you'll know the long term effects) before releasing them we would still be waiting for penicillin.
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Tiluvas
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:43 Post subject:
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| Orison wrote: | | Pretty sick. Use one of the worlds most deadly diseases to cure another of the most deadly diseases. Irony. |
Well, as long as you aren't a f****t you shouldn't be worried about getting HIV.
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Overon
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 18:58 Post subject:
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| Brael wrote: | | Overon wrote: | | Occulis wrote: | | Jack, are you advocating avoiding experimental drugs based on your fears? It's okay. A lot of people oppose things like penicillin, aspirin and kidney dialysis because of their potential dangers, too. |
experimental drugs need time before they are used
my grandmother probably died because oops, the drug she was taking causes spontaneous heart attacks ... they recalled it shortly after ..
what was it again, procrit or something ...
these companies make fucktons of cash on new drugs .. they don't bother spending real time to test them .. why? because its inefficient
i mean really, if you're supposed to take a drug every day for the rest of your life, and they didn't spend 20-40+ years testing it (they probably didn't spend more than 5) .. how are you to know what it could do to you in the long run? |
If you spent a lifetime testing drugs (thats the only way you'll know the long term effects) before releasing them we would still be waiting for penicillin. |
if there's an immediate need in a situation where death is probable thats different ..
especially for something you only take in one instance ..
but for something you take every day .. you should test for the long term
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khrath
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 19:44 Post subject:
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I hope they do a donor/sponsor type of distribution with the virus.
Anal man love and no more lump in your chest.
What more could you ask for.
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 19:51 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | Jack, are you advocating avoiding experimental drugs based on your fears? It's okay. A lot of people oppose things like penicillin, aspirin and kidney dialysis because of their potential dangers, too. |
Try not to read too much into my post mmkay Sherlock
If I advocate avoiding shit, you wont have to ask because youll KNOW
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Metzger
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 21:16 Post subject:
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every day i pray for Cpt. Tripps
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lauren000
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 21:31 Post subject:
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folding proteins are dangerous
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kbarr
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 22:13 Post subject:
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| lauren000 wrote: | | folding proteins are dangerous |
The freak is trying to think large thoughts. It must be self medicated again.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 02/15/05 - 03:38 Post subject:
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| Tiluvas wrote: | | Orison wrote: | | Pretty sick. Use one of the worlds most deadly diseases to cure another of the most deadly diseases. Irony. |
Well, as long as you aren't a f****t you shouldn't be worried about getting HIV. |
i luv u --->lol!
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Kitsumi
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Posted: 02/15/05 - 03:49 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | If we take God's punishment for gayness and use it to cure cancer, he's going to be soooo p****d I don't even want to think about what he might do. |
lmao, even my wife laughed at that one and she went to church (before she met me and I corrupted her)
Kits
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Fattguyy
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Posted: 02/15/05 - 06:22 Post subject:
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So can we breed gay people to get more HIV for cancer cure?!
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