Cure for Cancer?
Holy fucking shit, they just cured a guy of terminal cancer.
No, really. Check it out: Gene therapy has eradicated cancer from two dying men using genetically modified versions of their own cells. Both were suffering from advanced melanoma but the technique could be customised to attack other common cancers. Although scientists remain cautious because there have been many false dawns in the use of gene therapy, the results show, in principle at least, that aggressive cancer can be treated this way, even after it has spread and the outlook is grim.
This article does go on to say that they tried this therepy on 17 people, and it only worked for two. But still!
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Cool!!!
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Yeah, I thought so.