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Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Read with skepticism helmet tightly strapped on. However, if this proves to be a viable cure for the big C, it will truly be the dawn of a new era.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/19/061019102114.ms2asupj.html

own_king · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: here

Yes, and Koreans can successfully clone humans as well . . . I hope the head reseacher's name isn't Ahn.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

Gene therapy has been around for a long time. Many therapies looked great in mice, and even in small human samples, but there's been no great breakthru thus far. If they get to Phase III trials and are still getting those results, I'll start to get excited.

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

If this works out, how the hell am I ever gonna mock Korea for never having given the world anything of importance.

own_king · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: here

ben the saint · Joined: 16 Jan 2006

This is coming from a country that claims �The Chopstick Theory, Stem-Cell Success� and now Cue from Cancer? It only begins to explain a peculiar anomaly of global science: how South Korea, a nation of only 48 million people and no history of biotech accomplishment, has emerged as the world capital in any kind of research. Shocked

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

Lets see if I understand this correctly. It seems people would much rather this NOT be true, and therefore no cure for cancer be found, condemning hundreds of thousands to die of this disease each year than a cure actually be found and found in Korea.

You people are PATHETIC. Get a life.

own_king · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: here

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

They often claim first and research second.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

"Yonsei scientists may have developed a cure for cancer." Too bad Yonsei scientists never cry.

doggyji · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:43 am Post subject:

I read an article about a research group led by Dr. Kang Chil-yong at University of Western Ontario in Canada is developing an AIDS "preventive" vaccine. It looks promising but still has to go a long way.

Dr. Kang's quite well-known in the field. About him:

http://www.hoamprize.org/english/prize/medalist/99_m_kcy.htm

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I talked to my girlfriend, who is in graduate school studying medicine and international health, and she said reports like this come out all the time. She doesn't give it much weight since as yet the therapies don't work very well on humans.

Anyway, here's hoping to their success.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

There are a number of AIDS vaccine clinical trials underway. For instance:
http://www.iavireport.org/specials/OngoingTrialsofPreventiveHIVVaccines.pdf

Using recombinant adenoviruses in cancer therapy isn't new (for example, they've been used to deliver endostatin treatment for liver cancer in experimental animals) although the relaxin adjustment may represent a significant development. Of course, many findings that appeared significant in testubes and/or animal models fizzle in clinical trial. I think the claim 'cure for cancer' is probably over enthusiastic since very different elements are involved in the varieties of cancer out there - it's like having to cure hundreds of different diseases rather than one; but you never know until you know.

www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/080507.pdf
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/gene
http://www.prweb.com/releases/20062422/5/prweb382384.htm