An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated

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An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated

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A new study raises a sobering possibility: Cancer simply may be here to stay. Researchers at Kiel University, the Catholic University of Croatia and other institutions discovered that hydra — tiny, coral-like polyps that emerged hundreds of millions of years ago — form tumors similar to those found in humans. Which suggests that our cells' ability to develop cancer is "an intrinsic property" that has evolved at least since then — way, way, way before we rallied our forces to try to tackle it, said Thomas Bosch, an evolutionary biologist at Kiel University who led the study, published in Nature Communications in June.
 
One can't predict DNA mutations, hence, there is no way to prevent them at least for now. Therefore, goal of eradication becomes also very difficult to achieve IMHO.
 
Sure enough, they discovered tumor-ridden polyps from two hydra species. Oddly, the tumors ravaged only female polyps. They bred them for five years, generating several clones of each.
An analog of breast cancer in hydra?
 
An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated
Everything that ails us had to start somewhere, and much has been conquered.
Age is no protection against eradication.
 
Well we can alter genetics in corn to make it's own pesticides, couldn't we alter our DNA in the same manner.
 
@Cliff
They are trying to sell us that 'new' corn, without convincingly telling us why we need it.

But mainly because they can produce more of it, with much more ease and lot less risk (to their profitability/ bottom line etc., which will endanger lots of other bottoms, along with bottoming out of those companies in the market, you see there are lots of 'bottoms' involved in this whole process).;)
 
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