Yeah, move a rare ocean mollusk, the only one that produces the enzyme needed to create the vaccine into a facility, disrupting it's life cycle in the process, and possibly wiping out the only thing on the planet that we have evidence of creating a vaccine for cancer. Na, it isn't hard to breed them at all.
Yeah, move a rare ocean mollusk, the only one that produces the enzyme needed to create the vaccine into a facility, disrupting it's life cycle in the process, and possibly wiping out the only thing on the planet that we have evidence of creating a vaccine for cancer. Na, it isn't hard to breed them at all.
if taking just a couple mollusks out of their natural habitats kills them off, then they are probably gona die on their own from inbreeding and lack of reproduction.
This is important since the natural population is declining.
Now, before we get in a spam war, Kalb, I must apologize. I didn't read the whole article, just enough to get the thread started. At the bottom of the page, it does say that we can induce breeding. How this may effect the mollusk, I still don't know, but it should not kill the entire population like I wrongly assumed earlier.
Don't spam this with you gloating, just accept that I was wrong and move on.
Look, taking a few molluscs and if not breeding them trying to clone them or something isn't going to kill off the species. And the vaccine can probably be made by other things too.
Well, it may help for many types of cancer, many other types still need better treatment bitterly. But as long as we're making progress, I think it's good.
Just a little off topic, but somewhere I read cancer was supposedly a human caused thing (radiation from cell-phones, microwaves, tanning beds, etc.) The only type of cancer I couldn't imagine being man-made would be skin cancer (caused by the sun at least)...or leukemia...
Anything that can cause the cells in your body to quickly reproduce at highly abnormal rates is a form of cancer. There are synthetic ways to induce cancer, yes, but something as "simple" as incorrect DNA base changes can cause cancer. As there are synthetic ways to induce cancer, there are many more natural and biological causes.
