Post PLCNWN articles here.

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"New drug produces steep drop in bad cholesterol HICAGO – An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes. "We are the most excited we have been in decades," said Dr. Christopher Cannon of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who led the study of the novel drug for Merck & Co. "This could really be the next big thing." The drug, anacetrapib (an-uh-SEHT'-ruh-pihb), will not be on the market anytime soon. It needs more testing to see if its dramatic effects on cholesterol will translate into fewer heart attacks, strokes and deaths. Merck announced a 30,000-patient study to answer that question, and it will take several years. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101117/ap_on_he_me/us_med_cholesterol_drug"

11/17/2010 9:13:46 PM

So.... how long until we can do whatever we want, because there'll be a pill to fix everything?


I, for one, eagerly await our technocratic nanny-state future.
Freedom is overrated. With freedom, people can fail. Who wants that?

11/17/2010 9:16:55 PM

do you ever get out of your political state of mind and just chill?

11/17/2010 9:18:08 PM

take a chill pill

11/17/2010 9:49:35 PM

^ haha 8/10

11/17/2010 9:56:30 PM

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"FREEDOM IS OVERRATED"

11/17/2010 10:20:26 PM

Winner: GeniuSxBoY

11/17/2010 10:21:44 PM

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

11/17/2010 10:22:56 PM

Cholesterol pill = slavery

11/17/2010 10:28:05 PM

I want a pill that will give me an instant six-pack.

11/17/2010 10:28:47 PM

I think targeting cholesterol isn't the best way to tackle heart disease. It might be a good indicator of heart health on its own, but a lot of these drugs end up doing more harm than good. We'll see what the trials show on this one.

11/17/2010 11:55:47 PM

I'm sure the pill will have some insane adverse side-effect that no one anticipated and will result in a lawsuit. And cancer.

11/18/2010 12:02:45 AM

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"Freedom is overrated. With freedom, people can fail. Who wants that? "

lol fucking relax buddy have a beer god damn

11/18/2010 12:16:47 AM

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"Scientists Find Way to Partially Reverse Aging in Mice SUNDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists say they have partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice, leading to new brain and testes growth, improved fertility and the return of lost cognitive function, or thinking skills. http://tinyurl.com/37udbq9 "

My theory:
Aging will be solved. It's a physical devolution of cells that can be repaired by starting cells with DNA containing the same sequence of instructions, beginning at a different location of code. Cells will simply repair itself and turn you into a ~25 year old looking adult, the point at which people begin degenerating.


When age is solved, the time/distance equation between interplanetary travel will be arbitrary. We'll be able to travel 1000 lightyears away without dying by age. We may die from shit going wrong, but not because of age. This will pave way for colonizing the universe since the world is getting too small.


[Edited on November 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM. Reason : .]

11/28/2010 3:58:50 PM

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"Scientists trick cells into switching identities NEW YORK – Scientists are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialized cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy that doctors may someday perform inside a patient's body to restore health. http://tinyurl.com/382mrc9"

11/29/2010 8:58:24 PM

i'm turning everything into penis tissue

11/29/2010 9:02:55 PM

you need penis tissues for your penis issues?

11/29/2010 9:03:59 PM

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"Scientists are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialized cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy that doctors may someday perform inside a patient's body to restore health engineered lifeforms will exploit to wipe out mankind."

11/29/2010 9:05:37 PM

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"My theory: Aging will be solved. It's a physical devolution of cells that can be repaired by starting cells with DNA containing the same sequence of instructions, beginning at a different location of code. Cells will simply repair itself and turn you into a ~25 year old looking adult, the point at which people begin degenerating."

One problem with aging is possibly due to telomere shortening, which would be way more intensive of a gene therapy than your theory...

From the article:

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"The secret to these transformations is the fact that all cells of a person's body carry the same DNA code."

Not if you're a mosaic.

11/29/2010 9:18:43 PM

NASA is having a presser on Thursday about some wacko astrobiological discovery

11/29/2010 9:22:20 PM

at least I know I'm free

11/29/2010 9:45:46 PM

kadwackle is preggers and is leaving TWW.

It's [b]EMCE[b]'s baby.

Life, Changed

11/29/2010 10:17:40 PM

Code, Failed

11/30/2010 4:02:10 AM

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"leading to new brain and testes growth,"

11/30/2010 8:24:08 AM

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"When age is solved, the time/distance equation between interplanetary travel will be arbitrary. We'll be able to travel 1000 lightyears away without dying by age. We may die from shit going wrong, but not because of age. This will pave way for colonizing the universe since the world is getting too small. "

Well if no one died but because of accidents then the world would definitely get too small. Also I would not be down for living all that long. I think it's a big minority that would like to live forever.

[Edited on November 30, 2010 at 9:12 AM. Reason : big is the opposite of small]

11/30/2010 9:05:21 AM

people would wait a lot longer to have kids i bet.

11/30/2010 9:11:47 AM

Wait so you are saying I am not gonna live forever? Well shit that changes my plans

11/30/2010 9:24:15 AM

[Edited on November 30, 2010 at 9:49 AM. Reason : hah, already posted ]

11/30/2010 9:48:55 AM

So I guess we are posting cool health articles in here: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700086029/U-of-U-doctors-testing-stem-cell-spray-to-heal-burns.html

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"SALT LAKE CITY — Surgeons and doctors at the University of Utah are testing out a topical spray that utilizes a person's own stem cells to treat their wounds. The treatment consists of removing red cells and combining a concentration of platelets and progenitor cells with calcium and thrombin. The final mixture looks like Jell-O, and the application process takes about 15 minutes. The process was tested out on patient Kaye Adkins, who had an open wound on her foot that weeks of treatment — including a skin graft — had failed to heal. Adkins said she initially thought they were going to inject something into her foot and was excited to hear it was, instead, a spray that would be applied during a second graft. This time, the graft was successful, and the wound healed. "I had never heard of anything like that," she said. "It was just amazing." Dr. Amalia Cochran of the University of Utah Health Care Burn Center said, in Adkins' case, as in others, bacteria must be removed before the spray can be used. Stem cells are already used to help patients recover from heart surgery, but their use on burns is fairly new. While Adkins' burn is healing, so is her heart. Stem cells were used during her bypass surgery five weeks ago to hasten healing for that procedure as well. Cochran said that the technology could have a great effect on the treatment of burns of all sizes. "It's my hope that, in my career lifetime, that stem cells will completely revolutionize how we are able to take care of patients — not just with small burns that are challenging to heal — but with massive burn injuries as well," Cochran said. The spray, one of many developments in the world of regenerative medicine, could have many long-term benefits for patients, according to Dr. Amit Patel, a University of Utah cardiovascular surgeon. "We can accelerate healing or improve healing," Patel said. "Then, it's the quality of healing. And then we hopefully advance to decreasing the scarring process completely." According to Patel, researchers are starting with a biological Band-Aid but hope to eventually end up with synthetic skin that's derived from a person's own cells. "Regrowing your own skin in a bioreactor is very realistic, and that's not five years away even," Patel said." The military is already keeping a close eye on the Utah project, as the technology would be helpful for treating burns on soldiers."

[Edited on November 30, 2010 at 9:57 AM. Reason : asdf]

11/30/2010 9:56:28 AM

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"Well if no one died but because of accidents then the world would definitely get too small. Also I would not be down for living all that long. I think it's a big minority that would like to live forever."

Too bad most of these people wouldn't be able to afford the gene therapy for it if they ever get that far... I highly doubt that is something that would just go down in price in a relatively small number of years and I would be willing to bet insurance companies are like "aw hell no" to covering it

11/30/2010 11:13:53 AM