scientists reverse cancer in lab

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Booyah.
Scientists discovered they could switch on cancer in cells by removing the microRNAs from cells and preventing them from producing the protein. And, crucially, they found that they could reverse the process, switching the brakes back on and stopping cancer.
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Since 10-year old tech can't handle modern URLs...

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I'm gonna not focus on Malcolm's fuckup and say that this is very exciting. It also raises questions about purposely triggering pre-cancerous replication to heal injuries and force cells to replicate past their telomere limits.
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Goddamn all of you.
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Hey, Malcolm, your link is broken.



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Researchers now know why wasp stings cure cancer. Unfortunately not as promising on the immortality front as Mal's (broken) link.
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Maybe wasps aren't as big of assholes as we believe?
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Leisher wrote:Maybe wasps aren't as big of assholes as we believe?
No, they're still assholes, just with a practical use.
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They're the complete opposite of assholes. They're, like, ass-points.
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Leisher wrote:Maybe wasps aren't as big of assholes as we believe?
Maybe every time a wasps stings you is because it sensed a melanoma on your skin and it just saved your life and wasps just can't understand why we hate them so much when all they want to do is help.
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GORDON wrote:
Leisher wrote:Maybe wasps aren't as big of assholes as we believe?
Maybe every time a wasps stings you is because it sensed a melanoma on your skin and it just saved your life and wasps just can't understand why we hate them so much when all they want to do is help.
This is a brilliant theory.
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Leisher wrote:
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Leisher wrote:Maybe wasps aren't as big of assholes as we believe?
Maybe every time a wasps stings you is because it sensed a melanoma on your skin and it just saved your life and wasps just can't understand why we hate them so much when all they want to do is help.
This is a brilliant theory.
The species that reproduces by zombifying other species and having the young cannibalize them? Oh yeah, nothing but benevolence coming from those things.
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Who do they zombify? Scorpions right?

Just saving more lives...
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Leisher wrote:Who do they zombify? Scorpions right?

Just saving more lives...
I don't think they fuck with scorpions. Spiders, ants, other wasps, and a host of other insect species.
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So again, they're fighting our natural enemies.

The wasp might be the most misunderstood creature on the planet.
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Leisher wrote:So again, they're fighting our natural enemies.

The wasp might be the most misunderstood creature on the planet.
Spiders kill more things that annoy you than wasps, in far greater quantities. Cats kill mice but cats are still assholes.
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Shut up with your hate speech, you anti-Waspite.
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