Fighting diseases with viruses!

[Galant]

This is so cool!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3921693.stm

Technology eh! What a marvelous modern age we live in.

[Kezzer]

Yeh saw that a while back. If they do find the cure for cancer something bad is going to happen to the world

[Galant]

Yeh saw that a while back. If they do find the cure for cancer something bad is going to happen to the world

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[SilentDeath]

Hmm it says normal cells will suicide to prevent the virus spreading. Yay it means you will die from that instead!

[Kezzer]

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Read up about the equilibrium and you'll understand

[Skeps]

*edit* Very sorry to hear that Tig, I really didnt mean any offence by my post last night But like I say I fully support the Cancer research charity ( having found that my Mum had breast cancer )and it too sickens me to think that we have to rely on charitys for research when you have people like Bill Gates in the world with more than enough money to go round

[TiG]

Skeps, saying stuff like that above makes me mad, i lost my mum to cancer less than two years ago. If there was a cure i'm bloody sure they would be using it. I still think its sickening that we have to go to charity to get the money to research cancer and the government should do a damn site more.

TiG

[FordPrefect]

It sounds like a good idea. But the information we are gathering and expertise in making these viruses could also be used to create viruses that could target a person, or group of persons Thats the only problem with science for every discovery there is a good and a bad use, and there is always someone who will seek to capitalize on the bad use.

[megah0]

The shutdown of cells is a natural defence mechanism, similar to demolishing houses when a major fire is out of control to prevent it spreading.

Something that is in the pipeline is a virus which will infect the cancer cells and leave an immunological marker behind, an engineered antibody is then used which will identify marked cells and destroy them.

Cancer research is in a very exciting phase and that article whilst good doesn't really make clear the sort of breakthroughs that have been made.