/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7586425]

Where were you when BASED DENMARK discovered the cure for cancer?

http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2015/10/malaria-vaccine-provides-hope-for-a-general-cure-for-cancer/

[Anonymous No.7586426]

The hunt for a vaccine against malaria in pregnant women has provided an unexpected side benefit for Danish researchers, namely what appears to be an effective weapon against cancer. The scientists behind the vaccine aim for tests on humans within four years.
Danish scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of British Columbia (UBC) face a possible breakthrough in the fight against cancer, which may result in a genuine medical treatment for the dreaded disease.

The hunt for a weapon to fight malaria in pregnant women has revealed that, expressed in popular terms, armed malaria proteins can kill cancer. The researchers behind the discovery hope to be able to conduct tests on humans within four years.

In collaboration with cancer researcher Mads Daugaard from the University of British Columbia in Canada, malaria researcher Professor Ali Salanti from the Faculty of Medical Health and Sciences, UCPH, has revealed that the carbohydrate that the malaria parasite attaches itself to in the placenta in pregnant women is identical to a carbohydrate found in cancer cells.

In the laboratory, scientists have created the protein that the malaria parasite uses to adhere to the placenta and added a toxin. This combination of malaria protein and toxin seeks out the cancer cells, is absorbed, the toxin released inside, and then the cancer cells die. This process has been witnessed in cell cultures and in mice with cancer. The discovery has only just been described in an article in the renowned scientific journal Cancer Cell.

[Anonymous No.7586427]

>>7586426
“For decades, scientists have been searching for similarities between the growth of a placenta and a tumor. The placenta is an organ, which within a few months grows from only few cells into an organ weighing approx. two pounds, and it provides the embryo with oxygen and nourishment in a relatively foreign environment. In a manner of speaking, tumors do much the same, they grow aggressively in a relatively foreign environment,” says Ali Salanti from the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen.

Ali Salanti’s team is currently testing a vaccine against malaria on humans, and it was in connection with the development of this drug that he discovered that the carbohydrate in the placenta was also present in cancer tumors. Ali Salanti immediately contacted his former fellow student and now cancer researcher, Mads Daugaard, who is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Pathology at the Vancouver Prostate Center at UBC in Canada. In collaboration, the two groups have generated results, which they hope will provide the basis for a drug against cancer.

“We examined the carbohydrate’s function. In the placenta, it helps ensure fast growth. Our experiments showed that it was the same in cancer tumors. We combined the malaria parasite with cancer cells and the parasite reacted to the cancer cells as if they were a placenta and attached itself,” Ali Salanti explains.

[Anonymous No.7586428]

>>7586427
Kills cancer cells

In collaboration, the two university research groups have tested thousands of samples from brain tumors to leukemias and a general picture emerges to indicate that the malaria protein is able attack more than 90% of all types of tumors. The drug has been tested on mice that were implanted with three types of human tumours. With non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the treated mice’s tumours were about a quarter the size of the tumours in the control group. With prostate cancer, the tumours disappeared in two of the six treated mice a month after receiving the first dose. With metastatic bone cancer, five out of six of the treated mice were alive after almost eight weeks, compared to none of the mice in a control group.

“We have separated the malaria protein, which attaches itself to the carbohydrate and then added a toxin. By conducting tests on mice, we have been able to show that the combination of protein and toxin kill the cancer cells,” Mads Daugaard explains.

“It appears that the malaria protein attaches itself to the tumor without any significant attachment to other tissue. And the mice that were given doses of protein and toxin showed far higher survival rates than the untreated mice. We have seen that three doses can arrest growth in a tumor and even make it shrink,” PhD student Thomas Mandel Clausen elaborates. He has been part of the research project for the last two years.

It would appear that the only snag is the fact that the treatment would not be available for pregnant women.

“Expressed in popular terms, the toxin will believe that the placenta is a tumor and kill it, in exactly the same way it will believe that a tumor is a placenta,” Ali Salanti states.

[Anonymous No.7586433]

Watch, some doctor in Denmark is going to crash in an automobile "Accident"

[Anonymous No.7586438]

>the discovery of the cure for cancer was made by a man named Ali

I wonder what /pol/ thinks about this?

[Anonymous No.7586448]

>>7586428
I'm excited, but I've seen too many "possible medical breakthroughs" in breathless news articles to really trust it.

If somebody could point me to the published results, that would be greatly appreciated.

If this is real, and actually works as a cancer treatment in humans, I will be astounded, but I will never have been happier to be wrong.

[Anonymous No.7586449]

I hope you realize that a cure for cancer has already been discovered and it's being suppressed because Earth is already extremely overpopulated and lowering the death total will fuck us even harder

[Anonymous No.7586450]

>>7586448
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(15)00334-7

[Anonymous No.7586451]

>>7586438

/pol/ is not that stupid as an entity. They are fucking retarded, but not that much. Most people in there aren't blatant racist, they just wanna make race studies scientific. Others are mostly trolls I think.

Not a /pol/ frequenter myself, but I have quite a few IRL friends who are.

[Anonymous No.7586454]

>>7586448
Sec, I'll upload the pdf to a file-sharing service and post the link here.

You need access to get it

[Anonymous No.7586457]

>>7586438
Its fun to pretend to be completely racist.

But for the most part, if someone figures something out that is important, good on them.

[Anonymous No.7586460]

>>7586454
>>7586448
http://docdro.id/h5OmTyN

[Anonymous No.7586464]

>>7586457
There's nothing fun about pretending to be retarded anon. Just think, there are people who wholly believe in the shit you're joking about.

[Anonymous No.7586467]

>>7586438
He was in the right place and right time. Anyone else could have done it if given the opportunity to do this research. /pol/ is always right.

[Anonymous No.7586468]

>>7586460
Huh, the paper actually appears to say what the headline says for once. This does indeed claim to be a potential broad-spectrum anticancer treatment that's potentially mild for non-cancer tissues.

It's not an absolute cure in and of itself, because not all cancer cells express the carbohydrate and so it doesn't totally eradicate tumors, but it could be a powerful component of a true cure along with other therapies like the T-cell treatments that have been successful with fighting leukemia.

Fingers crossed for no serious unpleasant surprises in clinical trials (like that ever happens).

[Anonymous No.7586478]

>>7586468
Judging from the paper this protein is quite good at targeting cancer in vivo. I dont think it's gonna be a cure (there will never be a true cure) but it will be an innovative new therapy for cancer. If it works Nobel worthy?

[Anonymous No.7586479]

>>7586468
>>It's not an absolute cure in and of itself, because not all cancer cells express the carbohydrate and so it doesn't totally eradicate tumors, but it could be a powerful component of a true cure along with other therapies like the T-cell treatments that have been successful with fighting leukemia.
reminder that nobody on earth knows why we ''fight illnesses'' beyond some implicit fear of death.

[Anonymous No.7586480]

mfw I wanted to be the one who cured cancer

[Anonymous No.7586486]

>>7586425
>>7586426
>>7586427
>>7586428

Citing the Pop-sci article

Like a pleb

http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(15)00334-7

Short version: New chemo. Possibly slightly less toxic to general system because of better targeting. Doesn't get all the cancer because of worse targeting, necessitating additional, but short, run of other chemo.

[Anonymous No.7586488]

>>7586479
>reminder that nobody on earth knows why we ''fight illnesses'' beyond some implicit fear of death.

Can't know nothing.

[Anonymous No.7586489]

>>7586486
I posted the full article later in the thread, moron.

[Anonymous No.7586491]

>>7586479
Because having illnesses sucks. This isn't rocket science.

[Anonymous No.7586522]

>>7586479
because illnesses hurt you doofus.
Try shitting your necrosed bowels and see how you feel about medicine afterwards.

[Anonymous No.7586644]

>>7586451
In science we study genetic populations.

/pol/ however is not interested in populations because it doesn't single out traditional races in a "special" way. Instead they only care about traditional racial science which lives in the realm of social sciences alongside women's studies and other retarded crap. The problem with /pol/ isn't that they want to make things scientific, it's that they refuse to move onto modern methods in favor of dumb pseudoscience tier shit that no one takes seriously.

They're essentially the equivalent of people who reject modern physical models in support of newtonian physics. Yes, that board is retarded as an entity.

[Anonymous No.7586678]

>>7586438
Who gives a shit what /pol/ thinks

[Anonymous No.7586696]

>tfw danish
A good feel.

[Anonymous No.7586709]

>>7586696
From the thumbnail, I thought I was going to get a sexy upskirt shot.

I'm upset now.

[Anonymous No.7587308]

>>7586644
Now that was stupid my shitskin friend.

[Anonymous No.7587318]

>>7586479


hehheheh... hard...