pacap | 10 years ago | on: When the U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages
exactly!
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pacap | 10 years ago | on: Cancer 'vaccine' that remembers and fights disease is developed by scientists
From what I remember, these blood cancer have an antigen, CD13 or something, which is unique to them - no other body part has it, making it easy to target them.
Otherwise, you get the side effect of destroying your own body, the case of a woman a few years ago, who died having her lungs destroyed by immunotherapy. Lungs had the same antigen.
This morning I read something hopeful in this direction - UCSF researchers designed an AND gate, so now they could trigger a T cell attack only when 2 specific antigens are present, making it much more reliable. And I could imagine these can be chained, further narrowing it down. It needs genetic sequencing to isolate.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/01/401471/tricked-out-immune-...
At the moment this is a terrible manual and time consuming process, so it is expensive.
pacap | 10 years ago | on: If You Build It, They Will Complain
exactly, that's what I meant
pacap | 10 years ago | on: If You Build It, They Will Complain
Good article, confusing title. I was expecting something else.
Anyway, it's strange to hear authoritative statements about programmers from someone who says "Ever since building my first VBA script in 2012"
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