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What do you think of the article's claim that eliminating the cold virus would be a good thing? I think I read somewhere that early exposure to cold viruses red
by klipt 7y ago
What do you think of the article's claim that eliminating the cold virus would be a good thing? I think I read somewhere that early exposure to cold viruses reduces the chance of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which makes me wary of trying to eliminate them completely...
- predxionbio 7y agoThere’s a lot of really interesting work left to be done in this area. In our company’s other life we’re involved in CAR-T research, which involves exploiting natural pathways in our immune systems to target them at cancer cells. It’s a super exciting area of research and is bleeding edge in terms of breakthrough therapies coming into the clinic. These therapies[0][1] cure upwards of 90% of what would otherwise be incurable cancers, but they also induce severe inflammatory responses (cytokine storm) which results in respiratory failure and neurological adverse events (that’s a nice clean clinical way of saying putting them in a coma). The holy grail would be real-time targeted therapeutics to modulate our immune systems up and down in response to various cues. We’re a long way off from that but it’s an idea that’s beginning to get wider acceptance in the medical community. [0] - https://www.novartis.us/sites/www.novartis.us/files/kymriah.pdf https://www.novartis.us/sites/www.novartis.us/files/kymriah.... [1] - https://www.gilead.com/-/media/files/pdfs/medicines/oncology/yescarta/yescarta-pi.pdf https://www.gilead.com/-/media/files/pdfs/medicines/oncology...
- lvs 7y agoDon't worry. We're not going to run out of cold viruses any time soon, and the pitch was hyperbolic in virtually every way.