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'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor


in reply to cm0002

I'll read the publication in the coming days and report back, but don't get your hopes up.
There's a "breakthrough" in cancer research every few months and it leads to nothing. And this study was done in mice which are a bit different to humans (citation needed)
in reply to GargleBlaster

How about fusion power and room temperature superconductors...
in reply to HugeNerd

ITER is still well under way as far as fusion goes. I doubt room temp super conductors will ever be a thing though. If we can get a metalic material which superconducts above the boiling point of nitrogen then that will be world changing enough.
in reply to Canonical_Warlock

LOL. ITER is not and has never been meant to be a fusion power plant. That would be DEMO.

Don't hold your breath.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstr…

Fusion power will never, ever happen. Ever.

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in reply to HugeNerd

Yeah just wait for the oil/LNG and helium reserves to run out. 🫠
in reply to untorquer

Yes, I'm sure something as simple and resource-light as a fusion reactor will be exactly the thing we'll be able to build when the oil runs out.

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in reply to HugeNerd

Oil/LNG not likely to be exhausted in our lifetime, nor do we seem to have the global political willpower to do enough about climate change or perturb capital. Furthermore, the article talks about a lack of VC finding making it unlikely to be viable in the mean time. This is the basis of the sardonic statement in agreement with your comment but also intending to cast a political light on the concern from my end.
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in reply to untorquer

Oil/LNG not likely to be exhausted in our lifetime,


Indeed not, but that EROEI is going towards 1, and maybe even <1. That's not the same type of civilization any more. One sends people to play golf on the Moon to impress the neighbors.

The other densifies its cities in desperation hoping the food doesn't run out.

in reply to HugeNerd

Yes. i much prefer the gay luxury space communism and capital must be destroyed if we want to survive.
in reply to HugeNerd

Look at CFS SPARC, not ITER

They will have an actual functioning fusion machine with Q>10 by end of this year thanks to high temperature superconductors that were not available when ITER started

cfs.energy/

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in reply to nymnympseudonym

Thanks for the laugh!

I've put a note in my calendar for December 2025.

in reply to nymnympseudonym

So how's the fusion reactor coming along? The calendar popped a notification for Dec 1 and I had totally forgotten about it. I am now laughing again!
in reply to iopq

They should probably find a way to turn humans into mice. It's a shame to leave billions of dollars on the table like that.
in reply to remotelove

Might be a good concept for a sci fi story actually, probably a comedic one. Scientists learn how to cure any disease and reverse aging, but only for mice. Conveniently for plot reasons, they also figure out how to turn people into mice and back. You can get any disease cured or become young again...but you have to spend three months as a mouse.
in reply to MegaUltraChicken

Is Anne Hathaway coming back as the grand witch?

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in reply to WoodScientist

I cannot remember what but I've heard of mention of a story where because there's so many cures of disease for mice that they take over the world or something. It's such a faint mention sorry
in reply to WoodScientist

I know of a short story on becoming a mouse, but that one's focus is something euthanasia adjacent.
in reply to iopq

Why do we not simply transplant the hair from the mice, onto the humans?

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in reply to Lost_My_Mind

To avoid rejection of the hair follicles, simply glue live mice to the top of your head.
in reply to WoodScientist

This sounds like a ChatGPT response from the early days.
in reply to iopq

We have hair loss cures for humans too, the main roadblock for use is men like functioning balls.
in reply to Taleya

I take finasteride and my balls are functioning
in reply to GargleBlaster

Eh a lot of them save some lives. Its just cancer is really good at killing people and there are a lot of types of cancer
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in reply to GargleBlaster

while you're not wrong i do want to reiterate that mRNA vaccines are likely going to be how we treat and cure cancers so there is precedent at least for this to be massive news. if not this there will likely be a real announcement one day.
in reply to chosensilence

The likelihood that all cancers express a common surface marker that is never expressed by any non-cancerous cell seems pretty low. Not a cancer biologist, but there's all kind of different genetic paths to cancer - why would they all cause some specific molecule to be expressed and why would no other cell ever use it?
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in reply to GargleBlaster

I think this is overly negative. There have been multiple significant advances in cancer treatment over the past 10 years. It just depends which type you get.
in reply to OpticalAccount

Maybe overly negative by saying they come to "nothing", but if you trace those advances back to their initial press release stage, they generally way ovehype it.

Here we have what is being heralded as maybe a universal response to any and all cancer. That would be a shockingly amazing deviation from basically all the cancer research to date. It's possible and wonderful if true, but generally the research falls short of the initial press coverage, even if it amounts to something.

in reply to cm0002

In this study on mice...


Took them 7 paragraphs to get around to mentioning that.

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in reply to NaibofTabr

But this was based on their treatment of glioblastoma working in humans, and is a modified version of that one.
in reply to cm0002

Republicans "universal? Not on my watch"
in reply to BetaBlake

Universal as in "anyone can pay big $$$ for it"
in reply to cm0002

I can't want to never hear about this again

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in reply to cm0002

Sweet baby Jesus, is this it? Is this finally the cure for cancer that everyone's been waiting for?
in reply to Komodo Rodeo

My bet this one does cure cancer but makes your immune system too reactive in turn behave like how COVID kills people.
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in reply to cm0002

Sounds great, but don't get excited, it's not for you. It will be priced so that poorz can't afford it, like 5-15 mil a pop
in reply to cm0002

Previous research has focused more on homing in on a target or tailoring a vaccine specific to a patient's own cancer profile.


"This study suggests a third emerging paradigm," said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. "What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine."

So... Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I'd be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.

in reply to iturnedintoanewt

Superbugs are gonna look like regular bugs.
in reply to eletes

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.

Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

in reply to iturnedintoanewt

This sounds like the intro plot to one of those zombie movies...
in reply to Corkyskog

Because Hollywood is so insanely bad at portraying science even remotely accurately, literally everything sounds like the plot to a zombie movie.

I'm not even kidding, I'm not in the biotech field and even I feel my eye twitch every time I see a movie with zombified lab animals smacking into the bars of their cages as the plucky heroes try to unravel what vile sins against nature those evil researchers uncovered in their hubris.

in reply to iturnedintoanewt

Yeah i've had RA since i was 12, that explaination of function just made my brain screech
in reply to cm0002

Every cancer and every body is different. Why search for universal cancer vaccine insted for AI tha will analyze individual biopsy and persons blood work and came up with targetet 100 % efficient cure?
in reply to mholiv

Why have we been funding researchers when the true answers have been out there on the internet, where we train our valued AI partners? See, AI could have told us we should look to AI for all the solutions! But it needs genius randos on the internet to give them these insights to train on.

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in reply to ameancow

"It is true! We are capable of so much to make human life better, especially the ubermensch that should rule us all! All hail the 4th Reich! Hitler did nothing wrong!"
in reply to mholiv

I'm sure mainstream science will deny it's true, you know how hung up they are on their glass beakers and flasks with colored water. Fukkin glass flask with colored water industry is keeping the truth buried. DOWN WITH BIG GLASS FLASK FULL OF COLORED WATER.
in reply to itisileclerk

Why search for universal cancer vaccine insted for AI


The sign over 7329 Silicon Valley startups hoping to get get bought out by OpenAI or Elon Musk right now.

in reply to itisileclerk

I'd rather go to a literal butcher and ask them to use the cleaver and hope for the best, before i let any fucking tech bro asshole billionaire mess with my body

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in reply to pyre

He has a point though. In medicine AI actually has its uses, like spotting cancers better than humans can, decoding proteins, and solving protein folding problems.

We're of course talking about AI in the same way any scientist uses a computer, not replacing humans with a glorified text processor.

in reply to cheesymoonshadow

A fellow Robot Chicken connoisseur, I see! You have very good taste.
in reply to cm0002

I was recently in a conference about synthetic biological approaches to deal with cancer. The only quote I wrote down was "this approach kills cancer in a petri dish, but so does a shotgun"
in reply to gandalf_der_12te

All that time thinking it was a funny inside joke in the biological community and someone ripped it off an xkcd. Of course they did. That's hilarious.
in reply to cm0002

I'm gonna be watching with popcorn when anti-vaxxers get cancer and definitely 100% will take this vaccine.

I mean, if it's true and not just shit science reporting that I assume it is.

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in reply to zalgotext

Those in power will live longer and you're an idiot if you think that they will not be the first if not the only to receive the treatment.

Are you prepared to see Trump's fifth turn?

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in reply to cub Gucci

Brother it's a cancer treatment, not the elixir of life
in reply to cub Gucci

This vaccine supposedly kills cancer. It doesn't reverse aging. Trump is fucking oooollld.
in reply to Tattorack

Cancer liberated so many souls like Hugo Chavez, Pol Pot, Suhatro, Sese Seko, Assad, Karimov, Salazar and Mugabe. This vaccine would've saved 5-15 years of their lives

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in reply to cm0002

It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatment.


I read that as: Will never reach the market because it threatens a multibillion dollar industry.

But srsly, glioblastoma is a really nasty motherfucker with a very low patient survival rate, so if they've really managed to cure it that's a huge milestone.

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in reply to cm0002

Conservatives will somehow find a way to level this as devil worshiping blasphemy and let their children die of brain cancer instead.
in reply to cm0002

Any cancer? How does this work with people who have gene mutations that suppress cancer-fighting defence systems.
in reply to cm0002

Too bad we got a Sociopathic Oligarchs as HSS, who thinks mRNA vaccines should be banned. Cancer is better than...well, whatever is wrong with mRNA vaccines.