Posted on 06/16/2009 5:45:34 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
A new study suggests that delivering small RNAs, known as microRNAs, to cancer cells could help to stop the disease in its tracks. microRNAs control gene expression and are commonly lost in cancerous tumors. Researchers have shown that replacement of a single microRNA in mice with an extremely aggressive form of liver cancer can be enough to halt their disease, according to a report in the June 12 issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
Cancer amounts of cells that have damaged programs. Their information state is incorrect. MicroRNAs work naturally in cells to regulate gene expression. Using microRNAs to change how the genetic program of a cell executes amounts to attacking cancer on the level where it goes wrong in the first place. This is how I expect cancer will eventually be cured.
The microRNA was packed into viruses and those viruses carried the microRNA into cells. That can be problematic for a few reasons including immune attacks against viruses. But the viruses worked well in this instance..
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Cheers!
there are tons of drugs that have saved the lives of rats. Unfortunately most of them don’t work in humans.
thanks, bfl
Um...let me guess: Recent studies are very promising and a cure for cancer is just around the corner.
30 years too late for Mom - I hope they find a way to stop this horrible disease.
Great news for mice!
We had better hurry up and invent every life saving drug we can right now.
Once the disaster of government controlled medicine takes hold, there won’t be cures for any disease...
Ping (cancer and micro RNA)... (Thanks, grey_whiskers!)
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Interesting yes it is however, will the AMA or big Pharma ever let anything but rats be curred?
That may be a good question, but it would take a soulless diabolical person to withhold a potential cure for Cancer because of profit motives. I'd venture to say, almost everyone knows someone that has died from Cancer, and most everyone wants to see a cure, because THEY could also die from it. I think it would be difficult to keep a real potential cure secret. I know I would give up my job right now if I knew the loss of my livelihood would bring a cure for Cancer. I think it would be very difficult to assemble enough people that wouldn't to make a conspiracy like that hold for any length of time.
Cancer is effectively cured in mice. They get the best health care in the world.
“Once the disaster of government controlled medicine takes hold, there won’t be cures for any disease...”
BigPharma controlled medicine now assures that there won’t be cures for any disease. No disease, no drug sales.
“That may be a good question, but it would take a soulless diabolical person to withhold a potential cure for Cancer because of profit motives. I’d venture to say, almost everyone knows someone that has died from Cancer, and most everyone wants to see a cure, because THEY could also die from it. I think it would be difficult to keep a real potential cure secret. I know I would give up my job right now if I knew the loss of my livelihood would bring a cure for Cancer. I think it would be very difficult to assemble enough people that wouldn’t to make a conspiracy like that hold for any length of time. “
THEY are soulless, diabolical persons. There are cures for cancer. The FDA/BigPharma/AMA do everything in their power to ban them, to ban knowledge of them. Why? I think two reasons: 1) the cures are found in natural medicine, and they can’t be patented. 2) No cures allowed because then there are no repeat sales of overpriced drugs. It is all about MONEY/PROFIT.
Great news for mice!
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Not really considering they get disected in the end (dohhhh).
Poor Mickey, just as he was ready to celebrate his cancer remission, a scaple impales his midsection!!!!
replacement of a single microRNA in mice with an extremely aggressive form of liver cancer can be enough to halt their diseaseThanks grey_whiskers.
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