"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Genetic Revolution Update: Researchers have transplanted cloned immune system cells back into the original owners, and boosted their immune systems in doing so. They were only cows, though, and no word of the long-term consequences of the procedure. Remember the bubble boy. He ended up having cells that ran amok after an initial success. The same could happen here. It might help in the short-term, but in the lung-run leave the person with leukemia or lymphoma or some other proliferative disease of the immune system. posted by Sydney on
12/08/2002 07:05:00 AM
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