Un virus qui guérie le cancer. quand la réalité rejoint « I am a legend ».
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9508895/A-virus-that-kills-cancer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html
#santé #Sci-Fi
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Face discovered in testicular tumour - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8860498/Face-discovered-in-testicular-tumour.html
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02042/Face_2042115c.jpg When “faces” are discovered in unexpected locations they are often hailed as miracles, for example the mysterious appearance of Jesus in a frying pan or - even more improbably - on a toilet door in Glasgow
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G. Gregory Roberts and Naji J. Touma, from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, had conducted the ultrasound to examine an unusual mass in the testicle of a 45-year-old patient
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Noam #Chomsky denounces old friend Hugo #Chávez for ’assault’ on democracy | World news | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/03/noam-chomsky-hugo-chavez-democracySpeaking to the Observer last week, Chomsky has accused the socialist leader of amassing too much power and of making an “assault” on Venezuela’s democracy.
“Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, such as fighting world war two, is an assault on democracy. You can debate whether [Venezuela’s] circumstances require it: internal circumstances and the external threat of attack, that’s a legitimate debate. But my own judgment in that debate is that it does not.”
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Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice
http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_noticeCanadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
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Il y a eu un papier dans Nature en 2010 expliquant l’histoire de cette recherche
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Voici une critique raisonnée de ces « exagérations » :
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/dichloroacetate_and_cancer.phpWe should be urging further investigation of this promising drug with the beginning of clinical trials, but it’s far too early to be babbling about “cancer cures”. There have been lots of drugs that look great in the lab and have excellent rationales for why they should work, but the reality of cancer is that it is complicated and diverse and there are many more pitfalls between a drug that poisons cancer cells in a petri dish and a drug that actually works well in the more complex environment of a human being.
One other factor that inflames the conspiracy nuts over this drug is that DCA is simple, dirt-cheap, and completely unpatentable — there is no economic incentive for a pharmaceutical company to invest a gigantic bucket of money in clinical trials, because there is no hope for a return on the investment.
This is why an independent academic community with research funded for knowledge rather than profit is so important, and really emphasizes why we cannot afford to privatize all biomedical research.
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Green #tea could help ward off dementia, scientists show | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/06/green-tea-alzheimers-cancer"Chemicals produced during digestion may protect brain against #Alzheimer's and #cancer, say Newcastle University researchers"
