"Why must it always be about money?"

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09.04.2012 11:07am

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Indiana Jerico
Sinfully Delicious v2
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I'm wondering if things like this can be done in Kickstarter?

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09.04.2012 11:41am

shooter_mcgavin
Registered Member

Ideally a good idea ... but isn't this how the outbreak in I Am Legend start?

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09.04.2012 12:08pm

Fifan
The guy with the girly avatar

Welp, I see I'm too late for doing a good old-fashioned 'start-of-the-zombie-apocalypse' joke. I've no futher business here. Ta ta.

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09.04.2012 2:03pm

Enkidoh
Time Travelling White Mage

The trouble is, certain types of cancers have actually been confirmed to be caused by viruses (ala, the most common forms of cervical cancer), so using a virus to destroy tumour cells might turn out to be more of a double-edged sword (at the least, potentially worthless, or even downright counterproductive).

Still, this research is definetely encouraging, but until it's been actually tested to work in destroying cancer cells in living tissue (ala, human trials), I wouldn't hold my breath that this is the 'magic bullet' for cancer.

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09.05.2012 2:27am

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Indiana Jerico
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Well, that's just it. The £1 million is supposed to allow them to be able to have test cases for humans. I'm just curious if it will actually work. I'm sure there are a couple of people out there who would be willing to be test subjects for this.

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09.09.2012 8:28am

Arckanghel
Pirate.

Could go either way on Kickstarter. It doesn't technically fit their guidelines, but they do make execptions when they want to.

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09.10.2012 12:49am

Magicjewel
Dr. Fantabulous
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This research is encouraging, but there are a LOT of problems with oncolytic viruses that have not been worked out yet. It really isn't all about the money.

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