Netyaroze said:
kain_kusanagi said:
JayWood2010 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
No more suffering would be good, but unless a genie is granting wishing it's not possible.
I agree with you on cancer. But there are other terrible diseases too. Can we do away with all disease? |
Just one. But you can name off more diseases if you want.
Cancer is just caused by so many things now it is hitting people from young to old ages and it is so sad. That is why I chose cancer. Nobody is safe from it and it is becoming more common it seems.
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I'm going to go with cancer as well. Not only am I even more afraid of cancer than any other illness, but my aunt is currently fighting lymphoma. It's silly to wish for something like for a magical end to cancer, but that's the one I'd pick if I couldn't be more broad about it.
While on the topic. I read that a new form of human DNA was discovered that's is more than a double helix. It is only found in cancer cells. Which means if we can find a way to target that DNA we can kill all cancer cells. We may not be far from a scientific solution. Hopefully we will soon see a world that fears cancer no more than the common cold.
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This might take a while (decades atleast). Cancercells can have various mutations and its not a single disease its just natural cell degredation causing massive problems and messing up other working cells. And it can have alot of different faces if you will.
Cancer will be the thing that if we fully control it we will be practically immortal since we found a way to not only destroy the broken cells but to refresh the DNA in all Cells and fix it.
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What I'm talking about is a new discovery. It turns out that there is a special kind of DNA that is only in cancer cells. It was difficult to find, but it's common with all cancer cells. It doesn't matter what kind of cancer it is, it will have this newly discovered DNA that is unlike our double helix.
The problem with fighting cancer today is we have very little way to target cancer cells so we end up poisoning the entire body and hope the weaker cancer cells will die first.
What this new discovery gives us is a way to target cancer cells directly. How we do it is yet to be found. Maybe there is a chemical compound that will destroy only this new DNA but have no effect on normal human DNA. I don't know. I'm sure the best minds are on the job as I type this.
It's not going to happen overnight. But for the first time in the history of cancer research we have finally found a universal cancer weakness to exploit.
