Foundational technology to make cancer cells revert to normal cells Date: December 23, 2024 Source: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Summary: A research team has...
Foundational technology to make cancer cells revert to normal cells
Date: December 23, 2024
Source: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Summary: A research team has developed a groundbreaking technology that can treat colon cancer by converting cancer cells into a state resembling normal colon cells without killing them, thus avoiding side effects.
As someone who is neither a doctor nor a scientist, I'd love to learn from others who are more knowledgeable whether this is actually promising or not really.
All of my life I have seen popular science articles like this. Not just with cancer. I can't recall the last I have heard about the in-lab miracle making into production.
All of my life I have seen popular science articles like this. Not just with cancer.
I can't recall the last I have heard about the in-lab miracle making into production.
I can't speak to any specific breakthroughs like this (I'm not an expert.) But the thing is, unless you're an oncologist or cancer patient or cancer researcher yourself, it's highly unlikely that...
I can't speak to any specific breakthroughs like this (I'm not an expert.) But the thing is, unless you're an oncologist or cancer patient or cancer researcher yourself, it's highly unlikely that you would hear about new cancer treatments going into production, whether they're based on a breakthrough that was in a popsci article like this or not.
Yeah it’s a mess in both directions. You first get the media and sometimes the lab vastly overhyping results. Then you get 99% of it washing out in trials because oops it doesn’t work/kills...
Yeah it’s a mess in both directions.
You first get the media and sometimes the lab vastly overhyping results.
Then you get 99% of it washing out in trials because oops it doesn’t work/kills people/whatever.
Then some small % becomes part of a new therapy that probably adds 2-5 months+ of lifespan for the people diagnosed and properly treated.
Only the initial speculation has the sex appeal that the media wants, and thus you never hear the rest. I am of course over simplifying tremendously but medicine is hardly the only field with recycled miracle stories while real progress is ignored.
Foundational technology to make cancer cells revert to normal cells
Date: December 23, 2024
Source: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Summary: A research team has developed a groundbreaking technology that can treat colon cancer by converting cancer cells into a state resembling normal colon cells without killing them, thus avoiding side effects.
As someone who is neither a doctor nor a scientist, I'd love to learn from others who are more knowledgeable whether this is actually promising or not really.
All of my life I have seen popular science articles like this. Not just with cancer.
I can't recall the last I have heard about the in-lab miracle making into production.
I can't speak to any specific breakthroughs like this (I'm not an expert.) But the thing is, unless you're an oncologist or cancer patient or cancer researcher yourself, it's highly unlikely that you would hear about new cancer treatments going into production, whether they're based on a breakthrough that was in a popsci article like this or not.
Yeah it’s a mess in both directions.
You first get the media and sometimes the lab vastly overhyping results.
Then you get 99% of it washing out in trials because oops it doesn’t work/kills people/whatever.
Then some small % becomes part of a new therapy that probably adds 2-5 months+ of lifespan for the people diagnosed and properly treated.
Only the initial speculation has the sex appeal that the media wants, and thus you never hear the rest. I am of course over simplifying tremendously but medicine is hardly the only field with recycled miracle stories while real progress is ignored.