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In a petri dish, sounds like it. Specifically it sounds like they can reduce the growth rate ("tame") it, but not necessarily cure it entirely. It also sounds
by gpm 3y ago
In a petri dish, sounds like it. Specifically it sounds like they can reduce the growth rate ("tame") it, but not necessarily cure it entirely.
It also sounds like they haven't turned this into a treatment yet. They're still working on how to effectively get it where it needs to go in the body. They haven't run things like human tests that might reveal side effects. They haven't turned the "technology" into a "product".
I don't think the headline suggests that they've done more than that. "taming a chaotic protein" isn't "curing cancer", it's "figuring out how to deal with one component of most cancers in isolation". It's a step forwards.
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- akoboldfrying 3y ago>They're still working on how to effectively get it where it needs to go in the body. I skimmed the paper, and this is indeed the case. The full extent of their testing was in vitro testing against the lysate of a specific cancer cell line -- that is, against the "raw contents" of a bunch of cancer cells which have had their cell membranes removed. In my lay understanding, getting their stuff where it needs to go -- and only there -- is likely to be very difficult.