Fighting cancer cells with HIV

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This is pretty impressive!

There’s a chap I wan’t to do some work with here in London who’s finding way’s to kill them using bacteriophages that deliver nanoparticles 8)

It’s cool. I’m happy that you’re impressed by this kind of thing. 🙂 Not many are, most peoples eyes glaze over.

Wow, pretty mind blowing. It’s amazing that that kind of work can get overlooked by people – the impact it’s had on that child and her family is fantastic.

It’s not overlooked by other scientists – using viruses for this kind of treatment is cutting edge research.

Getting up in the morning and reading the New Scientist/a breakthrough publication whilst having a coffee, brightens up my day significantly. It reminds me that things can always get better and that science can be a great source of hope.

That was an amazing video. Would love to know more about the details! Like what caused the fever, and why did it stop. And why the treatment doesn’t always work, and what is the future for thi medication? Have we cured cancer now?!? Amazing.

I love this kind of stuff – someone who can look at something perfectly constructed to evade a cell’s defences as HIV, and think ‘I can use that…’.

PS Shermer. Nah, no cure for cancer yet. Cancer is a load of different diseases which share similar features. There are quite a few we can cure most of the time, though.

Excellent and amazing another step in finding a cure.

Science is a great source of hope.
My brother passed away last month from liver failure caused by Bowel/liver cancer.
While I’m aware that a ‘cure’ may only be a few years/decades away, and I have lots of ‘what ifs’ floating around my head, I’m also aware that ongoing research during the 6 years he had the disease gave us valuable extra months with him, that we wouldn’t have had a few years earlier.
Toward the end of his treatment he was being given drug combinations which didn’t exist when he first got Ill.
We are currently planning some fund raising activities for 2014, to raise some money for the UCLH colorectal unit research fund, we are looking at 50-100k, which I hope will make a difference.

How do you manpulate the RNA in a virus? With enzymes? If so, how do you make the enzymes?!?