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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Significant Medical News
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:17:46 -0500
[snip] What is interesting is some new research that is indicating that some
forms of cancer cells are actually stem cells. This is both exciting
and frightening. Exciting because we could actually engineer cancer
cells to do things (grow organs back?). Frightening because the
miracle of modern stems cells could actually go haywire and kill the
patient.

    Its even scarier than that, Ken. Most cancers are "caused" by
inappropriate activation of proto-oncogenes that have lain dormant in our
genome since the end of embryogenesis. If the "off" switch is accidentally
turned "on" you get cancer.

Charlie


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >      And just think:  George Dubya Bush pretty much banned this
> research, proving once again that the US is first in being last:
>
> The politics of the day determined that there was only ONE way to get
> stem cells and that was from destroying embryos. The USA scientific
> community so keyed in on that, they overlooked other means. Instead of
> looking elsewhere, the scientific community stuck their collective
> heads in their rear ends. Besides, it wasn't a ban on the research,
> just a restriction on the federal funding of one aspect of the
> research. The misinformation campaigns (on both sides) were so
> effective that few people understood what really happened.
>
> So, for scientists in other countries to scoop the USA on this is a
> no-brainer. Besides, all the smart scientists aren't in the USA anyway
> since our educational system is so horrible because Dubya (and Ted
> Kennedy) gave us "No Child Left Behind".
>
> What is interesting is some new research that is indicating that some
> forms of cancer cells are actually stem cells. This is both exciting
> and frightening. Exciting because we could actually engineer cancer
> cells to do things (grow organs back?). Frightening because the
> miracle of modern stems cells could actually go haywire and kill the
> patien.
>
> --
> Ken Norton
> ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.zone-10.com
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