Scientists Crack Genetic Codes of 2 Cancers in Giant Step Forward

[KRonn]

This is good!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580441,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.0

Scientists Crack Genetic Codes of 2 Cancers in Giant Step Forward

The complete genetic codes of two human cancers have been mapped for the first time. The move could herald a medical revolution in which every tumor can be targeted with personalized therapy.

The exhaustive genetic maps, which catalogue every DNA mutation found in two patients' tumors, will transform treatment of the disease. It has been described as the most significant milestone in cancer research in more than a decade.

Scientists predict that by about 2020 all cancer patients could have their tumors analyzed to find the genetic defects that drive them. This information would then be used to select the treatments most likely to work.

Insights from the genomes will also lead to the development of powerful drugs to target DNA errors that cause cancer and highlight ways in which the disease can be prevented. Cancers would be diagnosed and treated according to their genetic profiles rather than their position in the body.

"The pace at which genomics is moving is probably the most exciting thing that's gone on in cancer research in more than a decade," said Professor Sir John Bell, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. "These cancer genome projects are a major landmark, as significant as the sequencing of the human genome itself."

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6959325.ece

[Pat]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

[crazy canuck]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

Not only are people living longer but they are also living better at older ages.

to the OP this is great news!

[DontSayBanana]

This is definitely great news for me and my family; cancer is so overly present in my family history that I think I'm at like a 95% risk of cancer by age 60.

[Grallon]

Beware - the Dementia Times of gene-tampering and nanotech splicing are a'coming. 




G.

[DontSayBanana]

Beware - the Dementia Times of gene-tampering and nanotech splicing are a'coming. 

G.

I for one look forward to thwarting the purity of the project at Gattaca.

[KRonn]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

Not only are people living longer but they are also living better at older ages.

to the OP this is great news!

Like George Burns used to say, I want to live to be 100 years old, because very few people die over the age of 100.   

[jimmy olsen]

Excellent news.

[Neil]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

It's alright.  Increased longevity will eventually destroy civilization.  Things will balance out.

[HisMajestyBOB]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

I want to see 2100.

[Sheilbh]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

I'm planning to live to a youthful 150.  GO MEDICAL SCIENCE!

[Neil]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

I'm planning to live to a youthful 150.  GO MEDICAL SCIENCE!

Probably won't happen.  The state will have bankrupted itself applying longevity treatments to everyone long before you would reach 150.  And when that happens, your people will regress to barbarism.

[jimmy olsen]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

I'm planning to live to a youthful 150.  GO MEDICAL SCIENCE!

Probably won't happen.  The state will have bankrupted itself applying longevity treatments to everyone long before you would reach 150.  And when that happens, your people will regress to barbarism.

Depends on how the treatment works, if it's a one team gene therapy type thing then maybe not.

[Barrister]

With the average life span being 70-80 years already in western countries, one can only wonder how old people born today will live to be.

I want to see 2100.

That's my goal.  I'll be 125.

[garbon]

I want my stem cell injections.