driver
- 30 Mar 2006 17:03
forest
- 31 Aug 2006 10:08
- 59 of 1180
34% now!
forest
- 31 Aug 2006 10:12
- 60 of 1180
Make that 44%
forest
- 31 Aug 2006 10:30
- 62 of 1180
dumping started!
forest
- 31 Aug 2006 10:37
- 64 of 1180
I got in months ago @ .28 ( the last spike ) long term hold.
potatohead
- 01 Sep 2006 09:08
- 69 of 1180
Gene therapy shrinks melanoma tumors
(MCT)
NEW YORK - Doctors wiped out melanoma by reengineering patients' own cells, marking the first time gene therapy has worked successfully against a cancer and raising hopes that the treatment can eradicate other forms of the disease.
Government scientists took healthy immune cells from patients with advanced forms of the skin cancer and taught the cells to recognize and destroy the cancer cells. Doctors then fed patients the tailor-made fighter cells intravenously, and their tumors gradually shrank.
Just two of the 17 patients in the study are still disease-free a year and a half after the treatment. But doctors said the research proved that the technique could help patients battling many forms of cancer.
"We can now convert normal lymphocytes into cells that can recognize very common cancers like breast, lung, ovary, prostate and so on. We haven't treated those patients yet, but this represents proof that this kind of approach can work," said study author Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute.
The other 15 patients in the study, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, grew low levels of the reengineered immune cells for at least two months. Since the trial began in December 2004, scientists have developed more advanced gene therapy techniques that could improve the results, Rosenberg said.
"It is totally intriguing," said Dr. Anna Pavlick, director of the NYU Cancer Institute's melanoma program.
But it's too soon to call the therapy a cure, she said.
"They didn't look at survival and they wouldn't be able to in this small group of patients. That's why it's a little bit premature to know how effective this is going to be, but nonetheless it is a treatment that needs to be studied in a larger number of patients," said Dr. Howard Kaufman, director of the tumor immunotherapy program at New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia.
Melanoma is one of the deadliest and fastest-growing cancers in the United States. An estimated 62,190 people will develop the disease this year, and 7,910 will die of it, according to the American Cancer Society.
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http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/15414535.htm
forest
- 03 Sep 2006 13:11
- 72 of 1180
Just been on the other bb, what a load of crap being posted. Nothing in the weekend press, re erx.
mcmahons
- 04 Sep 2006 09:16
- 74 of 1180
Did anyone see the TV News item BBC 'Gene therapy shrinks melanoma tumors' Saturday 02/09/06 and was this tiddler of a company the one making the News ?
Presume it is based on early trades this morning!
mcmahons
- 04 Sep 2006 09:56
- 76 of 1180
cheers
potatohead
- 04 Sep 2006 13:47
- 77 of 1180
ERX have got there senior scientist writting a note with regards to the guardian report last week.., I emailed it them on friday night, they responded this morning saying a note will be issued ;-).. just sit and wait now
potatohead
- 04 Sep 2006 17:16
- 78 of 1180
dont know why you lot are moaning, its going up.. or have you been waiting hopeing to get in cheaper and it has dones lately is go up.. oh dear!!! thats a pity, well never you mind, back in june the ceo said the sp was significantly undervalued and the price then was the same as about now.. so its not too late to get in, you just missed getting in sub .0020p thats all..