cobber wrote:A release of the cure for cancer (since it's clearly already been invented)
I read an interesting article about cancer. It said that it's almost impossible to cure cancer because it occurs due to mutations in our DNA. Cancer is basically intertwined with evolution and adaption. Some of these mutations turn out to be beneficial, the vast majority do not. So, to cure cancer you'd have to stop evolution.
Although, the immune system is also intertwined with our evolution. The immune system already fights cancer on a large scale. All cancer is are cells that do not die. The process of programmed cell death is called apoptosis, which is then divided into other mechanism for specific cells. There is also necrosis, which is trauma, or lack of blood which will also kill cancer, i.e. surgery. If you dig deep into immunology there are some interesting new methods to deliver nano bots that target specific proteins and certain molecules that which ride on cancer proteins. Proteins are one of the problems when the fold in the wrong way or are hijacked to do the dirty work to keep mutant cells alive.
With the human genome mapped, many misaligned proteins within the cells can be targeted, reconfigured and controlled from/ at the DNA level. Presently, I take a drug, Imuran, which acts at the DNA level to suppress my immune system to keep an autoimmune disease at bay. It is also a cancer drug.
Too many people die of cancer, not enough people die of CIDP... damn it! I need a cure!