That sounds kind of odd... is 8 months difference significant?
Yes. Everyone in the study had late stage liver cancer (usually 3 to 4 months of life expectancy). Adding almost a full year to that is great.
EDIT: To add to that... .these studies are done on the terminally Ill. Many have had no success from other therapies. It works on them, there is a good chance it is effective on those in earlier stages of the disease.
TRAIL was an abandoned type of treatment due to cost/efficacy issues. This team discovered new molecule that can cross the blood-brain barrier and has shown improvement in Mouse life expectancy.
Yes. Everyone in the study had late stage liver cancer (usually 3 to 4 months of life expectancy). Adding almost a full year to that is great.
EDIT: To add to that... .these studies are done on the terminally Ill. Many have had no success from other therapies. It works on them, there is a good chance it is effective on those in earlier stages of the disease.
Thats great news.
I wasn't trying to be negative or anything. It was an honest question.
Mark Showalter, representing the team of astronomers that discovered Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, is inviting the public to weigh in on what their formal names should be in a contest called "Pluto Rocks!" You have until February 25 to vote on your favorites. They also invite people to write in alternative suggestions.
Been a lot of talk about this one the last month, first it was supposed to miss us by 22,000 miles, now it's 17,000. The scary part of this is it was only discovered a year ago.
And a dude on CNN said that earths gravity could change it's orbit enough for an impact when it returns in 2046.
I just read Lucifer's hammer and now this type of stuff freaks me out. I just hope that if it does come it either hits on the exact opposite side of the world and we have time to prepare, or it hits directly on top of me.
It annoys me that this isn't more of a wake up call to governments and international bodies in general.
Yes North Korea testing a small nuke is bad and deserves attention, but what about the thousands of objects in space that come close to our planet and could generate nuclear weapon type yields (or much much worse) at completely random points on the globe?
Nah let's cut funding in order to build new creative things to kill each other with.
Edit: Yeah, I enjoyed Lucifer's hammer quite a bit.
That's okay. We can always call Harry Stamper. He's been drilling holes in the earth for 30 years. He has never, never missed a depth that he aimed for.
Disaster averted. Make a major Hollywood motion picture.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works are promising a commercially viable fusion reactor within four years. This probably falls under the too good to be true category, but its damned exciting to speculate on. I would love to hear what our resident scientists and skeptics have to say about this.
I'm trying to figure out if their design is similar to or based off the Bussard Polywell design that I've been following on and off, I guess I'll have to watch the video.
__________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position.
But certainty is an absurd one.
