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[Cyberbrain]

Nanotechnology has been used for the first time
to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted
package of "tumour busting" genes.

[FunkOdyssey]

This sounds like it would be the answer for TFI if only it would arrive sooner or he would survive long enough to participate in a trial. Really exciting development.

Edited by FunkOdyssey, 10 March 2009 - 06:35 PM.

[Reno]

Looks good. There are several nanotech drugs that are in or have finished clinical trials. Most of them are posted in the cancer thread at the top of the forum.

Edited by bobscrachy, 10 March 2009 - 07:55 PM.

[AgeVivo]

Here is the abstract in the Cancer Research journal: http://cancerres.aac...2.CAN-08-2657v1
I wonder what makes this DNA-nano construct specific to tumors... any kind of tumors?

If so, and if it works in humans, can we say that we probably have the first treatment to live much longer?
- regularly take those nano-cancerkillers
- regularly take a telomerase activator (TA65 or astragalus)
to do like those ''supermice" that can resist cancer and age

Edited by AgeVivo, 11 March 2009 - 07:02 PM.

[forever freedom]

As bobscrachy said, it looks good.

AgeVivo, great link about those supermices.

[niner]

AgeVivo, your link is broken. Here's a fixed link to the abstract:

http://cancerres.aac...2.CAN-08-2657v1

The delivery system is really cool; it uses dendrimers with DNA just mixed with them in a colloidal structure. What I still don't understand (can't see the full text without subscription) is how the hell does this system target only cancer cells instead of all cells? All of the magic bullet schemes I've ever seen have involved cell surface antigens, but there is no mention of that here. The abstract makes it sound like magic. I'm guessing that there's a targeting molecule involved, and that it will not work if the cancer cell doesn't display the appropriate receptor. Similar technology described here.

[Dmitri]

Nanotechnology has been used for the first time
to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted
package of "tumour busting" genes.

Interesting study and it appears that nanotechnology/nano-gene therapy is advancing faster than I imagined. I assumed we were still in the process of using genetically modified viruses to implant desirable genes into cells; I had read a few horror stories on those experiments which had me weary about nano-gene therapy. The new study sounds very promising but we'll have to see how humans react considering our systems are more complex than mice.

[DebraJackson]

Hello...

These sounds similar to it would be the answer for TFI if only it would reach your destination faster or he would stay alive long
sufficient to contribute in an examination is actually stimulating development.


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Edited by DebraJackson, 04 June 2009 - 05:37 AM.