JuniorsCrackDealer@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoMaybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.message-squaremessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1318arrow-down115
arrow-up1303arrow-down1message-squareMaybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.JuniorsCrackDealer@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up58·2 days agothey use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish
minus-squareBastingChemina@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoI believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agowhen researching cancer drugs, yeah
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoSo we will become cancer
minus-squareSlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoMaybe the real cancer is the friends we made along the way
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoThe reality is that even if there was a magic bullet for cancer, all cancer, it would only extend lives a few years.
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agowell no, they kill cancer in petri dishes
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoIt was a joke about selection pressure.
they use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish
I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
when researching cancer drugs, yeah
So we will become cancer
Maybe the real cancer is the friends we made along the way
The reality is that even if there was a magic bullet for cancer, all cancer, it would only extend lives a few years.
How does that work?
well no, they kill cancer in petri dishes
It was a joke about selection pressure.