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Adorable-Ad-3223 t1_ixi45bi wrote

This article fails to deliver much useful information. I want to know when human trials will begin, how many are in the trial, what is the mechanism by which they help? Do they destroy cells, if so, how? It reads more like a wishlist than a description of an actual item which must have gone through at least animal trials to get to the point of human trials.

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BellyScratchFTW t1_ixiajs1 wrote

Hopefully we'll see more reporting about this in the near future. I, like you, want some solid details.

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real_with_myself t1_ixixxnh wrote

This is not the website you go even for quality tech articles, not to mention medical ones.

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solidshakego t1_ixivzm4 wrote

If i recall this isn't "new tech" or anything. Has been studied and used for a while I think on lab rats and stuff. A bit hazey but I do remember reading about it a long time ago.

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wandering-monster t1_ixjnj3d wrote

That's generally going to be the case for anything entering human trials. You don't put brand new tech into people.

Eg. The mRNA tech used for the COVID vaccine was first discovered in like the 80s and got into serious development in the early 2000s as a cancer treatment.

It just happened to be ready to go, a good fit for the problem, and extremely successful in its early human trials for cancer. So we kinda quickly adopted it into a viral vaccine instead of a cancer vaccine.

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vader62 t1_ixlflnj wrote

Science in a post truth world isn't about asking questions.

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Adorable-Ad-3223 t1_ixmotbq wrote

Science ensures there is no post truth. If something rejects reality it isn't science.

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