Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:46 pmby Yanoda
Gene Therapy seems to hold a lot of promises. Can't wait to see what results will show in the next few years.
Here are some links:
(Very advanced use of terms/language, some may not fully understand.)
http://www.nature.com/cgt/journal/v16/n ... 0846a.htmlTreat cancer with Gene Therapy.
http://www.rescancer.com/ovarian-cancer/37067.htmlUse Gene Therapy to treat blindness.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 163412.htmGerman article.
http://www.dkfz.de/de/presse/pressemitt ... _Krebs.phpTalks about experiments indicating brain tumors receding with the use of the parvovirus.
Thoughts?
Cheers
Yanoda
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:33 pmby mrjamwin
Did you not see the movie I am Legend? One gene therapy mistake and we'll all be vampires!!! Vampires I TELL YA!!!!!!
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:41 pmby Yanoda
mrjamwin wrote:Did you not see the movie I am Legend? One gene therapy mistake and we'll all be vampires!!! Vampires I TELL YA!!!!!!
Vampires? I thought they were highly aggressive humans with limited intelligence that get extreme sunburns.
Don't forget the outcry that came concerning the creation of a laboratory altered virus made by scientists a month ago.
Zombie apocalypse here we come! 
Cheers
Yanoda
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:46 pmby haasd0gg
They were zombies not vampires.
Christ jamwin
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:53 amby Mandalore
Ironically, I'm pretty sure they're called vampires in the book.
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:15 amby WD-40
I think they were a combination of both. They couldn't come out in daylight..including their dogs, and they were extremely strong, deformed and fast. I suppose in the movie they liked human flesh, but with an antedote, they could return to normal. I hated when his dog got bit.
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:25 amby THEWULFMAN
haasd0gg wrote:They were zombies not vampires.
Christ jamwin
Thanks for making me spill coffee all over the keyboard when I laughed uncontrollably. [derriere orifice].
Re: Using Viruses to Fight Defects & Diseases (Gene Therapy)
Posted:
Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:42 pmby mrjamwin
Haas what the hell? They were technically vampires though they were living, breathing vampires. Real vampires would be considered part of the undead the same as Zombies who are also dead/undead but are not living and breathing. What the hell I can't believe I'm actually discussing this!!!! The creatures in I am Legend were more vampire like then zombies. That's all I got say.
