Monday, March 28, 2011

Leukaemia genes' role discovered

During leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, the bone marrow, which produces blood cells, starts to churn out immature white blood cells. This changes the balance of the blood: The white blood cells are not properly developed so they cannot fight infection and there are too few red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body. The disease can be fatal within weeks if left untreated. And now three groups of mutations which cause acute myeloid leukaemia, have been identified by scientists. This could lead to new treatments. You can view the original article here.

This is obviously good thing, no doubt. But I've been playing with the idea what if the giant medicine firms are worse than you might think? Could it be possible that for example a cure for HIV has already been found like 10 years ago and the firms haven't published it yet because they can make more money by producing weaker medicines first. This is of course only speculation and hardly true, hopefully. It's still good to think about these things even if they seem far-fetched.


18 comments:

  1. Or the big companies could develop the cure for cancer if they really wanted to, but it's too expensive or something. Let's hope it ain't true, but who knows.

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  2. thats great news! hopefully breakthroughs will be made.

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  3. It sounds pretty cruel that they wouldnt sell a cure for that kind of horrifying disease. :/

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  4. yea, ive thought similar things. I just hope that companies wouldnt be so heartless.

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  5. Turn one problem into another problem that we can solve. I like it.

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  6. Could be true, but I hope it isn't.

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  8. wow this is really cool stuff, stayg tuned for me info.

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  9. IDK anyone directly with this diesease, but have heard horror stories. D:

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  10. That is good news, though I strongly believe we have a lot of known possible cures for many things.

    Did you know that the proper dose of Vitamin D required daily is actually 8000IUs, and not the 400IUs they currently state is sufficient? It is known to help fight cancer, multiple sclerosis, and a few other hazardous issues with our human health. The medical industry is very cruel to people, sadly.

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  11. This is why big pharma is great, they have the funding to find big things; they're R&D budgets are through the roof

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  12. @Cory Yes I have heard about that. That's one hell of a mystery too.

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