Date: 2005-03-10 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edhyena.livejournal.com
Now they just need to get to curing those "cancer" and "bigoty" things

Date: 2005-03-10 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Sa-WEET!

-TG

Date: 2005-03-10 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrissawyer.livejournal.com
That dosn't sound like God would approve of that. So we just can't do that!

Date: 2005-03-10 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shavastak.livejournal.com
Best part:
" This procedure is minimally invasive and only takes around 45 minutes to complete."

This means a relatively inexpensive, fast cure for a disease that normally haunts people's entire lives.

Awesome. My hope for the human race increases slightly.

Date: 2005-03-10 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkkdragon.livejournal.com
That is awesome news! One of my best friends has suffered with diabetes since he was 5 years old; he has to do the injections and the whole shibang. To see cures like this being developed in our lifetime... what a world we live in.

Cheers

Date: 2005-03-10 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andreal.livejournal.com
I'm a terrible, terrible person. While 5 seconds after I read this, I was thrilled for the person who had been suffering from this disease, my first thought was: My god, we've spent 10 years coming up with a better form of Insulin therapy, and now...

Meh. I need to get my brain back on track, and be less job-focused.

Date: 2005-03-10 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com
I feel for you. This sort of ethical dilemma -- that it's more profitable to devise TREATMENTS than CURES -- is one reason why I left biotech for environmental science.

Date: 2005-03-10 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shavastak.livejournal.com
Medical scientists suffer from the unenviable position of, if they are ethical and moral, having to work as hard as they can to rid themselves of a job.

Date: 2005-03-10 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainblye.livejournal.com
I would be interested to see any long term ramifications/complications/concerns that might crop up...but at the same time...Damn! How awesome!

Date: 2005-03-10 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skorzy.livejournal.com
Be careful when they proclaim a "cure"...

I remember sitting in at a FASEB meeting listening to a biotech representative give a presentation about how they have a potential "cure" for leukemia... it was the talk of the evening.

Six years later, their success rate deteriorated rapidly for unknown reasons.

Islet transplantation has been heavily researched for decades. Apparently the team in the UK is on the right track.

Its alot easier, and *faster* developing treatments than cures, but don't fool yourself thinking researchers aren't striving to find cures. The immediate demand for therapy drives the "treatment" market, and since they're significantly easier to develop, you see much more of them.

The ethics in Environmental Science aren't all that much different than any other scientific field. I could apply an Erma Bombeckism here.

Date: 2005-03-10 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shavastak.livejournal.com
No worries about the researchers; from what I've seen it's the *companies* that seem to be slipping.

Not in all fields, and thankfully most major diseases have multiple companies and countries working on curing them.

Back to the leukemia - they never figured out (or divulged, perhaps) why their cure wasn't working? That's unfortunate. There's often more to learn from failed cures than from successful ones.

Date: 2005-03-10 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luxatos.livejournal.com
YAY, A WINNER IS ME!!! I personally find it surprising that this news hasn't made the [livejournal.com profile] diabetes community yet.

I've also heard of people being cured of diabetes mellitus-1 by switching to a kosher diet... although I haven't seen any actual news article about it, just brief mention in a book pushing for Biblical living.

Date: 2005-03-10 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tombfyre.livejournal.com
Eeee! I was reading about the proposed test to this process a while back. I'm happy to see it worked. ^_^

Date: 2005-03-11 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] terminotaur.livejournal.com
Ummm, I'd need to look it up, but why is King's College getting all the credit here?

The general idea looks like something that was put out a couple years back from University of Alberta (see "Edmonton protocol").

Date: 2005-03-11 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pavel-lishin.livejournal.com
So I can start eating shitloads of candy and soda again, right?

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