06-14-2015, 02:31 AM
(06-14-2015, 12:04 AM)samhain Wrote: Sort of related: I watched an episode of VICE a couple of months back. There were oncologists on the program talking about an engineered retrovirus made fro the HIV virus that was (to really oversimplify) basically programmed to attack abnormal cells instead of normal ones. They were given to patients who had little to no chance of surviving their cancers and were willing to try just about anything. Some were very young children.
Interestingly enough, the treatment had a very high, almost total success rate. People with virtual death sentences were cancer-free after treatments. Pretty fascinating.
Unless it's a different story, I saw that on 60 Minutes and I thought it was the polio virus they were using. Over the last 10-15 years, I've seen maybe a dozen "breakthroughs" that were going to cure cancer...still waiting.
But with all the gene coding they're doing now, it sure seems like we should be able to kick just about every disease in the next 20-30 years.
