Cures for diseases?

[weeman]

Will we one day find the cures to all diseases (including cancer)??<br /><br />Is it likely that the cure to cancer would require genetically engineering a chemical that is the exact opposite of that cancer?<br /><br />This question relates to my beliefs of how humans may one day achieve immortality from all diseases. Not immortality as in everlasting life, but immortality from sickness, disease, and plagues. <br /><br />Everything in the universe is made up of smaller and smaller particles. It begins with superstrings to quarks to protons, neutrons, and electrons to atoms to molecules to elements and so on. From one single type of fundamental particle, we get the entire universe, and all the elements that create it. <br /><br />So, would a cure to cancer be hidden within its own framework? Could the future of genetics and medicine lead to the creation of a chemical that would break down the cancer's building blocks as though it never existed in the first place? <br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

One day we'll be able to genetically engineer ourselves so we'll be immune to most diseases. Only a new and truly nasty one would pose a risk and, even then, technology should enable us to easily overcome it. Something as simple as a nano-shot should clear up just about anything.<br /><br />Except, of course.. .Space Herpes. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[billslugg]

Space Herpes?<br />Did you get that from Uranus? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

http://www.theicepirateship.co.uk/theicepirates.html <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Various mental abberations will proably remain resistant to treatment.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Curiously, one important possible treatment for disease(s) is also potentially a killer:<br /><br />NY Times Article<br /><br />PubMed Abstract <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[weeman]

<font color="yellow"> Various mental abberations will proably remain resistant to treatment. </font><br /><br />Ah yes, you can't cure human stupidity <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Even if mental disorders were immune to any type of treatment, would it be possible to reprogram certain parts of the brain as though the mental disorder never happened? Would it be possible to operate, in some way, on the mind of a psychopathic patient and "reprogram" it so that they no longer think this way? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>

 

[weeman]

<font color="yellow"> Space Herpes? <br />Did you get that from Uranus? <br /> </font><br /><br />Hahaha.....classic <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>