Comments on: ‘Nanozyme’ nanoparticles can be programmed to target different diseases

By: beverly

beverly — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:23:55 +0000

is this being tested during trials anywhere in the world? if so, what are the results, and how does one find a nanoparticle trial?

By: Xio

Xio — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:15:23 +0000

But this has big promise down the line for the military. If we can get these to destroy diseases and what not. What is stopping it form creating super soldiers?

By: Happy

Happy — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:22:34 +0000

Always see you posted negative comments here. Nothing better to do in life? Or just want to make more people to read your thread? For me, those breakthroughs are good and we should happy about it.

By: MysticMonkeyGuru

MysticMonkeyGuru — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:20:41 +0000

See my thread titled “Why disease will never, ever be cured” to learn why this will be bought up, suppressed and destroyed by Big Pharma in five minutes. You can just fuhgeddaboutit.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:53:17 +0000

Hudi124 , I´d like to think like you, but it´s not like business work (from someone with many friends in pharma industry). Oligopolies are the norm.

By: james

james — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:58:14 +0000

That picture looks JUST like the flying spaghetti monster! It’s proof! Proof of his existence! He loves us and wants us to be well. Soon we will all be touched by his noodly appendages!

By: melajara

melajara — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:24:43 +0000

You are severely underestimating the power of lobbies, corruption and the way practical business is done on high-stakes subjects nowadays.

If a new biotech company would have raised enough money to go still independent trough the painfully slow FDA acceptance process, it would quickly be swallowed by one of the big pharma or one shell company put in front. Then, for some all too bad a reason, the “magic” technology will be dissolved. (It was not practical, there are too much side effects, bla bla).

And public agencies are not a real alternative, as in the context of (public) debt-ridden governments, most of their funding comes from big pharmas etc.

Look for comparison to the oil industry quietly suppressing any significant advance in electrical propulsion for decades.

Would there be less corruption everywhere, then hope would be justified, alas…

By: Starheart

Starheart — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:55:11 +0000

Improvement in technology can and will be able to cope with that. I expect sampling everyone’s genomic data to be very common in the near future so that medicine would be prescribed based on what’s wrong with specific genes rather than general symptoms. Diagnostics are the most important part of a cure.

By: Hudi124

Hudi124 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:24:31 +0000

I think claims that the medical industry will somehow suppress new technologies and cures to maintain the status quo are inherently ridiculous. The claim belies a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism in general. Yes, on a whole, the industry would make more money if they kept doing buisness as usual, but the temptation to develop this tech is far too great for any one company to resist. What I’m saying is this: The first pharmaceutical company that creates and releases advanced, useable nanodrugs will make a staggering amount of money, as they will have effectively cured many kinds of cancer and other ‘incurable’ diseases. This is the reason that companies are furiously competing to bring this stuff to market, because whoever crosses the finish line first is guaranteed a phenomenal amount of money. You speak of a ‘for-profit industry’, yet you do not understand that the greatest profit lies in releasing this kind of stuff. Like any medical breakthrough, the FDA will ensure that it takes 5 years or more before this tech gets used, but thats no reason to claim it will NEVER be released.

By: Bennie Beaver

Bennie Beaver — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:20:44 +0000

I continue to read about these kinds of breakthroughs. Still, I find it hard to believe that they will end up in my doctors office soon. Why would for-profit health care industries develop a solution to disease that could put doctors, clinic, and hospital out of business? To some degree, I agree with biohackers, that someone will need to bypass the system to get those breakthroughs to the public. Otherwise, you’ll continue to see so called breakthroughs that just keep you a alive another few days, months, or a couple of years.

If a for-profit health care system doesn’t have patients it will go broke! I’m an optimist, but still wonder how much resistance will come from our for-profit system. Really, how long will it take to get those best products on the market and in my doctor’s office?

By: Arctic Poppy

Arctic Poppy — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:19:14 +0000

But you need to sequence the disease, the healthy cell and then design the “nano” to fight the disease and leave the healthy ones alone. that’s a lot of sequencing per person. This is a long way from “every man’s pill.”

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:52:03 +0000

A “magic bullet” has been created? Why is this not on national news?
Once the harmful virus is sequestered, how does the body remove the nanozyme from the host?

By: melajara

melajara — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:14:56 +0000

Biopharmas will HATE this (to eradicate diseases is their worst nightmare, they just want you to live not too harmed by the disease by taking a daily dose of their expensive pills).

Better to have this research well protected as the very potent biopharma lobby will try to kill it ASAP.

And no, I’m not paranoid, just lucid and old enough.

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:37:02 +0000

If there ever was a project the Gates foundation should fund, this is it! This could potentially eradicate every disease! The compounds themselves could be so inexpensive. A real game changer.

By: Starheart

Starheart — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:18:17 +0000

Combined with genome sequencing becoming more and more accessible on a per-patient basis for diagnostic purposes, identifying and targeting specific malfunctioning genes is the most likely pathway to eliminating cancer.