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Saw this at scienceblogs tonight:http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2013/06/20/its-true-kid-cured-of-cancer-with-alternative-therapy/
Basically, little girl dying of leukaemia, out of options, tries radical experimental treatment being developed at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. There, researchers have genetically modified HIV to attack cancer cells.
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/12/11/gmo-virus-cures-kid-of-cancer-mainstream-media-finally-interested/
NY Times story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/health/a-breakthrough-against-leukemia-using-altered-t-cells.html?_r=0
Sid
longship
(40,416 posts)Good science.
Thanks, Sid!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)And how other patients in the trial responded.
I missed this story back in December. Glad ERV put up another blog post about it today.
Sid
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)thanks for sharing.
sheshe2
(83,338 posts)To Science!
Orrex
(63,085 posts)Now what the hell am I supposed to groupthink?
K/R!
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)to think for yourself. this is why the great Dog has
given us all a brain.
I mean, given us EACH a brain. not just one.
Silent3
(15,018 posts)Nothing but free-range, organic, gluten-free non-GMO kids will do.
geologic
(205 posts)this isn't about GMO FOOD...
Orrex
(63,085 posts)#9...
mountain grammy
(26,569 posts)wisechoice
(180 posts)Gun Saves life. We should thank gun manufactures and encourage gun ownership. That is the type of argument you make.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
Sid
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)There can be good and bad when it comes to research.
" According to the NYT piece, about half of the patients did not respond."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023051940
Doctors At Ohio State Witness Leukemia Breakthrough
And I get the desire to have GMO foods and call them all safe and such - but that does not mean people who don't want to rush in on such things are filled with 'woo' or are anti-science folks. You need trials, research, peer review (not paid for by big companies with a stake in such things).
How many times have we seen studies that say X is safe only to find out years later such things were wrong?
Excuse me and others if we are a tad skeptical and don't buy into the faith others have when their research is backed up and paid for by people with a financial stake in such things.
Caution and skepticism are par for the course in science - unless you have a personal/financial interest in shutting down dissenting voices.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)but now it will get you labeled "anti-science".
sigmasix
(794 posts)The ability to fight cancer and other horrible diseases has been revolutionized by the effects of modern science's accuracy. Evolutionary biology is responsible for saving many lives and alleviating suffering around the world- yet the same fundamentalists continue to claim science is evil and innimical to God's creation. Antiscience fundamentalist teabaggers would have these miraculous stories stopped and further research defunded over the use of the evolutionary biology model.
I cannot stress how much this right wing antiscience lunacy can damage our future.
jpgray
(27,831 posts)Or is it more likely this thread is intended to stir people up who have concerns about GM crops and set them spinning?
That genetic engineering has uncontroversial and socially beneficial uses is certainly not news, and this does not mitigate the harm caused by its more controversial or pernicious uses.
This is as meaningless to a debate on GM crops as it would be to a debate on returning Fort Detrick to its original mission.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
eridani
(51,907 posts)--to single bodies and crops spread out all over the environment, right?
Orrex
(63,085 posts)Starting with the cultivation of+ wheat 10,000 years ago.
eridani
(51,907 posts)According to what archeological record?
nikto
(3,284 posts)nikto
(3,284 posts)Everybody knows that!