X-Message-Number: 17958 From: Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:08:37 EST Subject: cancer-fighting nanomachines --part1_72.130313d6.2927d775_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't know whether the silicon bigots (just kidding, you non-carbon vermin) will count this as a 'machine', but we have an adenovirus which only activates in telomerase-positive cells. So it kills a high proportion of cancer cells (cures 20% of our disgusting nude mice with human prostate tumors), and combined with oligonucleotide antisense telomerase inhibitors (to limit the PDs of the few surviving cancer cells) is probably a great broad-spectrum cancer treatment. Expect to see something like this FDA-approved in approximately the Year Never. -Bill Walker --part1_72.130313d6.2927d775_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17958