Comments on: ‘Virus-like’ nanoparticle built to target tumors

By: Starheart

Starheart — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:22:37 +0000

This is likely to have both immense results for any treatment that aims to deliver directed cell-specific agents. And we pretty much can synthesize the payload to boot in form of specific RNA transcription inhibitors tailored to affect individual codons. Soon enough, everyone’s genome will be a part of their medical dossier. Likewise, cancers would be suppressed by sampling mutant cell DNA, identifying the mutated gene and synthesizing an inhibitor that only affects tumor cells. And with the discovery mentioned, we won’t have to engineer a retrovirus for that, instead using lab-made nanoparticles.

By: J to the Dub

J to the Dub — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:58:08 +0000

It’s NOT a TUMOR! :P

By: Bri

Bri — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:18:54 +0000

I’d rather see it deliver epigenetic drugs than chemotherapy . My own feelings on cancer is that in less than ten years it will be very treatable. The rate of informational growth is getting hard to follow. Soon if you spent all your time trying to keep up, you’d still be falling behind. If we haven’t passed that point already!

By: Mrs. Jo Dermody

Mrs. Jo Dermody — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:48:07 +0000

Since my four children had an uncle and an aunt and their father die of
pancreatic cancer I always looks for anything that in the end might save
their lives. Please keep working at this.
Also people like me who have Sjogren’s always pray that something will
come along to kill the defective gene that is making our lives so
very misearble. Thank you for all your work. Jo