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

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

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    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)

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    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.

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      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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    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

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    Curing (or at least improving our treatments for) cancer would be great. There’s a small part of me that absolutely does not want to see it happen within the next few years because of the current administration. It’d still be an overwhelmingly good thing to accomplish but I dread the future arguments over the time Dr. Don and Bobby got together in the lab to cure cancer through the power of Jesus, bootstraps and grit.

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    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?

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      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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        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.

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      You need to let the scientists know this! I’m sure your insights will be very valuable to them.

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        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.

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        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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            “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!”

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      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.