wow !!! could this be a cure for cancer ???

[welshTerrier2]

source: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-06-21T202059Z_01_N21629921_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-HEALTH-CANCER-VIRUS-DC.XML

A common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

The virus, called adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV-2, infects an estimated 80 percent of the population.

"Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet has no effect on healthy cells," said Craig Meyers, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

"We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests that AAV-2 has great potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent," Meyers said in a statement.

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[jim3775]

1. I remember when scientists found an "AIDS vaccene"...

about a year ago. It worked great in the lab but it was a total failure in human trials.

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Well, it would be, but Bush's bioterror team will off a few more...

scientists, so that the pharma-terrorists can still peddle deadly (but lucrative) chemotherapy.

Lori Price

[Grateful for Hope]

3. Exactly n/t

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

4. Fingers Crossed

[leesa]

5. Doubtful. Viruses mutate all the time and cancer cells are very unique

as well.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

6. Debbie Downer. :)

[johnaries]

7. Don't you know that cancer cells are human life?

You can't kill cancer tumors, they have live human DNA! We mustn't destroy life to save life. Somebody call Tom DeLay!!!!!


(do I really need to post this: :sarcasm: )

[DemBeans]

9. it's very true...

Didn't Jesus begin life as a cancer cell? I thought I heard something like that in the House a couple of weeks ago.

Can't kill Jesus!

[johnaries]

10. I'm CERTAIN that DeLay was once a tumor...

wait, he still is!

[lala_rawraw]

8. If only for Lupus too... but for the rich is this?

Or do I need to be dead to qualify? Blah!