Tuesday February 9, 2010, 3:54 am
That's good news! That test allows preventing cancer evolution.

Thanks Alisa!

Tuesday February 9, 2010, 4:35 am
It's good people are not stopping to do research and further studies to help prevent cancer and its evolution.. I still believe that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure... Thanks for the post..

Tuesday February 9, 2010, 8:49 am
Exciting news!

Tuesday February 9, 2010, 2:45 pm
Wonderful News!! ;)

Tuesday February 9, 2010, 4:13 pm
Oh please let it be so......

Tuesday February 9, 2010, 7:45 pm
noted, thanks.

Tuesday February 9, 2010, 7:58 pm
Won't support this company, I don't want to live forever anyway.
Thank you though Alisa
http://www.hisa.org.au/pathnews2

New Approach Speeds Up Differentiation of Stem Cells
The business of turning stem cells into specific endothelial cells is now a fairly mature field of science, but bringing that knowledge into clinical use requires being able to do this quickly and on a large scale. With the help of green fluorescent protein markers, a group of scientists from a number of US institutions identified a compound that may increase the efficiency of producing endothelial cells 40-fold. Daylon James, a scientist in Rafii’s laboratory, engineered a new line of human embryonic stem cells that produce green fluorescent protein when they become vascular endothelial cells. The label allowed the scientists to rapidly and easily track when the stem cells morphed into this cell type. The researchers bathed the stem cells in a variety of different small molecules and looked for those that resulted in more green cells. They found the most green —and hence vascular endothelial – cells when the stem cells were exposed to a compound that blocks TGF-beta, a growth factor that helps control cell specialization. Blocking TGF-beta at just the right time during cell culturing dramatically increased the number of vascular endothelial cells produced. Previously, the researchers needed to start with five stem cells for every endothelial cell they hoped to generate. But with the new method, starting with five stem cells gave Rafii and his colleagues 40 endothelial cells. “We’ve turned the ratio around,” says James. Most importantly, the cells work. The researchers grew human vascular endothelial cells and injected them into mice. After a week, the new “humanized” cells had assimilated into the mouse circulatory system. The cells still glowed green, allowing the team to pick out the injected cells. In addition, a molecule that sticks to the walls of working blood vessels also stuck to the green cells, suggesting that the new cells functioned normally. Using a small molecule inhibitor of TGF-beta circumvents some problems of testing in humans. Other methods for generating endothelial cells from embryonic stem cells have required factors derived from animals, and because of safety concerns, cells produced in this way are not suited for clinical application. Rafii’s approach, however, avoids the use of animal-derived factors, making it appealing for therapeutic blood vessel formation in patients. Here's a 3D rendering of vessels being formed from newly created endothelial cells: Video: Embryonic stem cell -derived endothelial cells connecting to one another to form primitive vascular tubules... More from Howard Hughes Medical... Michael
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Tuesday February 9, 2010, 10:55 pm
My beautiful, intelligent, and sweet natured daughter just died of a rare kind of cancer, the kind that doesn't show any symptoms until it's too late to do anything. Now my two grandsons have no mother, and her husband and all her friends (not to mention her family) are beside themselves. She didn't expect to live forever either, but she at least wanted to live long enough to see her sons grow up, or to hold her grandchildren. I don't know if people like her will benefit from this research, but at least it's a start. I only hope that they don't use animal experiments..

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 12:45 am
Informative! Practically, if any one is approaching to any professional surgon, means preparing unnecessarily for the same cause. Not only this, if any symptoms untill or unless is not disturbing routine life, should not opt for the diagnosis, again it depends upon the environments where one is putting up. Otherwise, for any symptoms I never diagnosed it and still it is true I have never taken any medicine for the last more than approximately 18 years. But at the same time, no problems! smile,Enjoy!

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 1:08 am
Mary they DO use animal experiments, (which is why I posted the article on them) I'm very sorry about your daughter.
Personally I think they know how to cure cancers, but it's more profitable to not cure people. Some plant eons ago that some guy said he found the cure (and I'm not talking about Sean Connery's movie Medicine Man. But I tried to follow that and the guy just disappeared. What's up with that? Never anything about him being a fraud or nothing. Just gone.

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 1:11 am
For Mary:
Safely Home:

I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.

Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the valley of the shade?
Oh! but Jesus’ love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.

And He came Himself to meet me
In that way so hard to tread;
And with Jesus’ arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?

Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still:
Try to look beyond earth’s shadows,
Pray to trust our Father’s Will.

There is work still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand;
Do it now, while life remaineth-
You shall rest in Jesus’ land.

When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you Home;
Oh, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come!

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 1:16 am
Great!! Wonderful & Exciting News. Thank You Alisa!!

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 7:52 am
I agree, as someone who has had cancer, if it is detected early it is much easier to treat.

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 11:27 am
Thank you for your kind words, Kathy. What a beautiful poem. I'm sorry to hear that these people are using animal experiments. And yes, I too know that there is a cure for cancer. Do you remember the Hoxsey Clinic, where a natural healer named Harry Hoxsey started a cancer clinic, in 1963, using timje-honored Native American herbal remedies. And guess what - they worked! Almost everyone who came there - when it wasn't already too late - saw some improvement, and added years to their lives, IF they weren't cured completely. And it only costs $3500 for the treatment!

But Harry Hoxsey was giving the allopathic doctors too much competition. His cures worked! So the allopathic doctors got together and instigated a plan to harass him into giving up his clinic. In fact, they harassed him so horribly that he was forced to move the clinic to Mexico - where it still operates today. Harry Hoxsey, however, ironically died of cancer - primarily because he was so badly persecuted by the allopaths.

I'm not totally against allopathic treatments. I feel that they may be totally necessary if the cancer has gone untreated for too long. But the way they treated Harry Hoxsey was unconscionable. I personally know someone who used Hoxsey's methods. He was given 30 to 60 days to live by his doctors - but the last time I saw him, about ten years ago, he was totally cured and looked great - and had been cancer-free for eight years. In fact, he was making his living giving dancing lessons!

Yes, there is a cure for cancer. But as long as cancer is big business, the allopaths are going to continue to give dangerous, outrageously expensive treatments - and maintain that every other sort of treatment is a fraud. It's good that now, organizations like Care2 are getting the word out.

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 3:50 pm
I am so sorry to hear about your daughter Mary. I lost my mother to cancer when she was way too young, and she literally had not one bad habit and had just received a clean bill of health before we found out she had it. This is not the same as losing a child; I can't even imagine the pain.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful poem Kathy, and thank you Alisa for this post.

Wednesday February 10, 2010, 10:03 pm
Mary..My condolences for the loss of your daughter..

Thank you Alisa for this article..I do hope the new testing will help..
Noted..
I will share this with my cancer group..

Monday February 15, 2010, 8:07 pm
Thanks for the kind words, Patricia and Dee. The problem isn't that there is no cure for cancer. There are many ways that can work, depending on the person and the type of cancer. The problem is that cancer is big business - and the medical establishment won't give up the $$$$$. that they are earning through invasive and painful treatments. I hope somewhere, soon, someone finds a cancer treatment that the allopaths can't cover up. Thanks again.