Science

Speaking of cures, it was announced yesterday that scientists may have found a cure for cancer.

I don't know. But they found some bacteria that successfully destroyed cancer cells in dogs.

Yeah, my grandfather died from cancer as well. But the thing is though once you cure a disease another will rise, it has always happened and will likely happen again. Once we cure cancer there will be another disease just as deadly, still the average lifespan would probably increase. And what is a lottie?

They probably already found a cure for some cancers. They just want the money. Once there is a cure, there is no need for charities or donations or anymore income to feed the "search" for a cure.

Selfish jerks.

Normally I would say Fox News is not a reliable source but this article is similar to what I have read on reliable news sites... So yeah, this is what I meant.

Yeah, the have a huge conservative bias, I have seen some of their videos and read some of their articles before, most of it is made up stuff and they throw in some facts to make it look reliable.

Like "Studies say..." those kind of phrases they say alot to make it sound believable or true.

Did it successfully destroy every last cell? Because unless it can do that, the cells that resist it will simply multiply and create a new generation of bacteria resistant cancer cells. This is why chemo-therapy doesn't always work.

Did you hear about the contagious cancer in Tasmanian Devils a few years ago? Apparently, each individual's DNA is so similar, that when they are fighting over food, some cancer cells will break off and get into the bloodstream of another devil. While in humans, our immune system would recognize the foreign material and exterminate it, in the devils, their immune systems think that the cells are their own. Then the cancer starts to develop in a new devil. It's kind of scary, actually, but something like this would never develop in humans. (Hopefully  )

Well you are partially right, but cancer can be caused by more things than just age, for instance, gamma radiation, which rips apart DNA and causes mutations to happen.  Secondly, cancer cells are just normal cells that have mutated to go "off the grid" and multiply without stopping. It creates an environment that has millions of cells competing for space and resources. These cancer cells start mutating, a sort of small scale evolution, if you will. For example, lets say one of the cells develops a mutation that allows it to gather nutrition faster than the rest. This allows the cells with the mutation to overcroud the rest, making the mutated cells the majority. Eventually, one cell will mutate to allow it to spray a chemical that will break through the tumor walls. Then the cancer spreads through your lymph system or your bloodstream, intoxicating the rest of your body.

Also, the reason the cancer in the devils was contagious was because their DNA is so similar their own immune system cannot tell the difference. It is correct that such a thing will most likely never happen in humans. We are just too different.

No, we don't just adopt other people's DNA, but if our DNA was similar enough to the DNA we were adopting we would.

It's like how you can't get a kidney transplant from just anyone, but you can get it from a close relative, because your DNA is so close to a match. 

That's weird... But I don't really understand how that even works. We're 4D "objects" but we live in a 2D hologram? Sounds odd, but I guess those scientists know more about it than me But if we're actually a hologram (I don't think that's what they actually mean) would that make us artificial intelligence?