Thanks PB, I really appreciate the p53 advice. I'll track down Oncormed's CLIA-certified laboratory which should by now have the p53 clinical testing available.
Don't worry about the off-topic. There is a Globalstar thread for Globalstar discussion. I'm going to use this as a biology base while I collect my thoughts and develop some understanding. Biology is sort of like CDMA anyway. I have a sneaky feeling they all melt into quantum mechanics and we will end up in the background 4deg K background microwave radiation pervading the universe.
Meanwhile, the nuclear war approach to Tarken's NHL - blow up the whole lot and hope to get the bad bits - is underway and something better than cyclophosphamide and mates is obviously desirable, for comfort as well as success. The nuclear war approach to Saddam Hussein and NHL might be effective, but not good because the collateral damage is enormous. So much better to fly a cruise missile up the street to his and NHL's front door.
Same for the stupid thugs running the ex KGB in Russia who have kidnapped a Qualcomm employee trying to provide them with a cdmaOne system in Rostov-on-Don. They think using a GPS system and inspecting a building, presumably as a prospective aerial location, are illegal activities. No wonder they don't have much in the way of progress there. I hope the USA sends a cruise missile through the front door of the building housing the KGB if they don't hand Richard Bliss back after satisfying themselves of their stupidity and his innocence.
You can read about their actions here:
biz.yahoo.com
So far, there seem to be quite a few prospective biotech approaches to cancer which offer great prospects for amelioration, cure and profit.
I like Telomerase inhibitors best. Monoclonal antibodies look pretty good too. The radioactive ones look a clumsy way of doing it. Sort of like tactical nuclear warheads. More precise, but still messy. Of course, prevention remains my favorite. Angiogenesis stoppers look great for rewinding cancer and leaving it vulnerable to cruise missile attack. There sure are many points of attack and many companies planning on succeeding.
In fact, cancer cells are starting to look like endangered species. I have always assumed cancer to be a simple fact of human life. But it really is likely to be a has-been like Smallpox, bubonic plague and other tragedies of human life. At least for anyone with a half decent immune system. So I guess there will still be plenty of old people who will not be able to be saved. Of course, with telomerase becoming coded into our genes so that we don't run out of life as the telomeres shorten then maybe even old people will be young. Get younger as you age.
Before I go too far down that trail, I'll need to develop a better concept of what "I am". A floating trail of consciousness, odd lot bunch of nostalgia, mere automaton of molecules with fake belief in self which passes instant by instant into the void? For now though, eating, hunting down some knowledge and looking for a way through the immediate dangers is enough to be doing.
A kind of deterministic dinosaur. A Taniwha.
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