US advisers back 1st drug from DNA-altered animals

Reuters ^

[MAD-AS-HELL]

ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan 9 (Reuters) - The first drug made using genetically engineered animals to near U.S. approval won key support on Friday from an advisory panel that judged it safe and effective despite concerns from groups worried about the genetic tinkering.

GTC Biotherapeutics Inc's (GTCB.O) experimental anticlotting therapy, called Atryn, is made using a human protein gathered from female goats bred to produce it in their milk.

[Caramelgal]

You cannot support that ridiculous statement with a shred of evidence.

Right back at you! Please support your ridiculous assertions with some real scientific evidence.

To the extent that genetic research is used to produce synthetic drugs, it can only be a disaster for Americans health. - It will spur a dramatic uptick in new cancers; this is because the base cause of most cancers is the ingestion, or injection of non-life substances.

Our preindustrial population had little or no exposure to cancer, but the diet, and medicine of the industrial age are loaded with non-food, and non-life medications, all of which cause cancer.

How do you define “non-life substances”? Water is a “non-life substance”. It is an inorganic chemical compound – H2O. Does water cause cancer? What about the air we breath? Does breathing fresh air cause cancer? What about the inorganic minerals that we get through both food and water that are essential for life and health – iron, magnesium, potassium? What about the necessity of sunlight for absorption of vitamin D?

And I don’t even know what you could possibly mean by “non-life medications”.

Re: Diabetics And the net result of that has been for people to become content to remain in their diseased condition, and treat symptoms, rather than seeking the cure of their condition. - Who knows how many man-years of life have been lost, and how many productive years of life have been lost for this cause.

Your abject ignorance is nothing less than astounding. Both my father brother are diabetic. No diabetic I have ever known is “content to remain in their diseased condition”. There is nothing fun about testing one’s blood sugar several times a day and injecting one’s self with insulin and following a strict diet in order to stay alive.

But insulin keeps people alive and living normal and productive lives while medical research is making great strides and getting closer every day in finding a cure – something that no “Creation Scientist” or “Creation” web site can make any claim to.

[DevNet]

Oldest Descriptions of Cancer

Cancer has afflicted humans throughout recorded history. It is no surprise that from the dawn of history doctors have written about cancer. Some of the earliest evidence of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors, human mummies in ancient Egypt, and ancient manuscripts. Bone remains of mummies have revealed growths suggestive of the bone cancer, osteosarcoma. In other cases, bony skull destruction as seen in cancer of the head and neck has been found.

Our oldest description of cancer (although the term cancer was not used) was discovered in Egypt and dates back to approximately 1600 B.C. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, or writing, describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were treated by cauterization, with a tool called “the fire drill.” The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2162156/posts?page=14#14

[editor-surveyor]

Less than 1% of tumors are “cancer” even today.

The ancients did not know of cancer. - There is no written description of anything resembling cancer in ancient writing. All projections of cancer into the ancient past are wishful thinking.

[editor-surveyor]

You don’t know what non-life means, and you call me ignorant! Duh.

[metmom]

Where did I say that?

[Caramelgal]

How surprising that a licensed medical killer would support the killing tools!

Nice. How very “Christian” of you. You just called DoctorMichael a “licensed medical killer”. You should be reported to the Admin Mod but I will leave that decision to DoctorMichael.

Can I then presume that you wear a medical bracelet or carry documentation that states that should you be found unconscious, gravely ill or seriously injured, that you would prefer to refuse any and all medical treatment and medication as you don’t want to support “the killing tools”?

Some say that there are no Atheists in the Fox Hole – likewise there aren’t many seriously ill or injured people who would refuse the help of a medical professional when push comes to shove.

[metmom]

Your rants say more about you than they do about those you disparage.

[editor-surveyor]

"What about the inorganic minerals that we get through both food and water that are essential for life and health"

If we ingest them from non-life sources, they accelerate our death, not life.

[editor-surveyor]

"Some say that there are no Atheists in the Fox Hole – likewise there aren’t many seriously ill or injured people who would refuse the help of a medical professional when push comes to shove."

And if that "medical professional" is not a natural practitioner, then it is most unfortunate that their ignorance leads to their loss.

[Caramelgal]

You don’t know what non-life means, and you call me ignorant! Duh.

No, I don’t know what non-life means in the context of your posts. Care to explain? And yes, I do call your opinions ignorant! Duh! And the more you post the more you prove it.

[editor-surveyor]

See 28

[DevNet]

Then how do you explain the cancers found in Egyptian mummies?

[Caramelgal]

See 28

I did and that explains nothing. Define a "non-life" source and answer the questions I posed to you in my post #21.

[editor-surveyor]

No cancers heve ever been found in any mummie.

[editor-surveyor]

All living bodies are designed to consume only ‘once living’ food. Simple enough?

[Comstock1]

Do you mind referencing any of your information? Otherwise your just another guy with a keyboard.

[DevNet]

Reality appears to disagree.

http://www.uic.edu/classes/osci/osci590/6_2Mummies%20Mummies%20and%20Disease%20in%20Egypt.htm

[DevNet]

Oxygen and water are both non living things our bodies consume as are the trace minerals required for correct operation. All of which never lived.

[Caramelgal]

And if that "medical professional" is not a natural practitioner, then it is most unfortunate that their ignorance leads to their loss.

So if DoctorMichael and I came across a gruesome accident scene and find you pined inside your vehicle bleeding to death after a semi ran over you (not that I would wish that on you or anybody else) but then according to you, I should stop DoctorMichael from administering life saving emergency care, tell the EMT’s to stay away and not transport you to a trauma center and call for an herbalist or homeopath instead?

And what if DoctorMichael, the EMT’s and the doctors and nurses at the trauma center saved your life with modern medicine? Would you sue them for malpractice for not letting you die? Just curious.

[Caramelgal]

Otherwise your just another guy with a keyboard.

LOL! How true.