TL;DR - Ewingella americana is a git microbe which when injected in mouse veins preferentially accumulates around oxygen starved environment, that is a rapidly divided tumor. it also brings immune response around tumor, so your immune system learns to fight it. Still in Mouse phase. but toxicologically safe so could be done in human soon. almost no major side effects (just inflamation)
Mice are using us to make themselves immortal. 😱
let’s be honest, if we create an immortality serum and give it to a mouse, that mouse won’t be immortal, it’ll be dissected after a few years to check the insides.
immortal does not necessarily mean invulnerable
I assumed medical kind of immortality, not magic. obviously that mouse is dead for the autopsy, I am not assuming the mouse will remain alive while they are being chopped up, and will outlive the heat death of the universe
sure but a biologically immortal mouse being dead for an autopsy doesnt make it not immortal
you do not want absolute immorality. worse form of torture imaginable
there are certainly worse forms of torture imaginable
Doubt it, and if you have something to suggest it would be infinitely worse if you include absolute immortality.
Some lab animals escape, notable ones are octopi. They are also known to kill their handler (abusive ones, anecdotally)
Wonder how long until pharma says this won’t work. Cancer is big business. They’ll never cure it…just find a way to manage it.
Great news if you’re a mouse!
true, not so great if you are a frog i guess
Could be one of those “Yes, but…” memes lol
When can us plebes have it?
You can have it right now. Just go out and find a frog. Open it’s stomach and rub is content on your cancer region. Simple really.
it has to be injected into veins, so do a injection dose (/s just in case)
I’ve probably read about hundreds of treatments that cure small animals like mice and frogs. Wake me when that s*** is proven on humans
We have hundreds of more treatments, there are hundreds (thousands?) of cancer variants, and every year we get more and better treatments. It’s a slow but steady march
I’m 54. Cancer was a death sentence when I was young. Cures? LOL, how about detection? Forget it. You weren’t getting diagnosed until it was way too late. And we had jack shit for medicine once we caught it.
In the 90s magazines used to publish articles about a “silver bullet” for cancer. Exactly the sort of thing you’re talking about. We collectively woke up and realized there would never be such a thing. LOL, the articles stopped overnight. :)
Remember working with a guy in 1993 whose skin was hideous with skin cancer. Haven’t seen such a human since. Skin cancer was a pretty big deal a couple of decades ago. People regularly died of it. Now it seems mostly beaten. Haven’t heard of a person dying from skin cancer this century.
I suspect a tiny spot on my face is cancer. My body seems to have mostly beaten it. But if it ever grows again, I know they can zap it with a simple outpatient procedure. That sort of thing could have been the beginning of the end when I was a child.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d personally shit bricks if the doc found even minor cancer, but at least I’d have a chance in 2025.
Telling public figures to stay in their lane is not reductive. It is a shorthand for recognizing limits of expertise and influence. Encouraging better perspectives is ideal, but it is not always effective when harm or misinformation is already happening. Clear boundaries sometimes need to come first before nuance can land.
I also recognize freedom of speech, which means both person X and I are free to run our mouths.
We are though all the time. You have to remember that cancer isn’t a single disease but a broad category of diseases, and treatments vary.
Sounds promising!
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