JuniorsCrackDealer@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agoMaybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.message-squaremessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down115
arrow-up1283arrow-down1message-squareMaybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.JuniorsCrackDealer@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up57·1 day agothey use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish
minus-squareBastingChemina@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 hours agoI believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 hours agowhen researching cancer drugs, yeah
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-212 hours agoSo we will become cancer
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoThe reality is that even if there was a magic bullet for cancer, all cancer, it would only extend lives a few years.
minus-squareSlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 hours agoMaybe the real cancer is the friends we made along the way
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 hours agowell no, they kill cancer in petri dishes
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours agoIt was a joke about selection pressure.
they use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish
I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
when researching cancer drugs, yeah
So we will become cancer
The reality is that even if there was a magic bullet for cancer, all cancer, it would only extend lives a few years.
How does that work?
Maybe the real cancer is the friends we made along the way
well no, they kill cancer in petri dishes
It was a joke about selection pressure.