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[bzarcher]

Common virus kills cancer cells, leaves regular cells unharmed.

This is really, really exciting. It's also why I occasionally envy people in biology right now - we're really finally starting to figure out a lot of the tools we've had in our bodies since the beginning, we just didn't know how or why to use them.

Prediction: By 2015, we will see an AAV-2 based treatment for most, if not all, forms of cancer. It will be as regular and accepted as treating a nasty infection or performing drug therapy.

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

That would rule.

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Child Garden? (It's an SF novel wherein viruses are used for ... lots of things, really.)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

No, though I'm certainly farmiliar with the concepts.

Good read?

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

I liked it. :) (I think I got it from the Westerville Public Library, believe it or not.)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I will keep an eye out, then.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

Horay!

[browntreesnake.livejournal.com]

I suppose this means I don't need to quit smoking, then.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, your breath will still smell like garbage. :D

[sillyfox.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping, anyway.

(Considering how cancer runs rampant in both sides of the family, I figure my sister and I are sitting here with big genetic bulls-eyes on our cells.)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

(You and me both - I've dodged breast, thyroid, and liver cancer so far...