A cure for cancer?

[JimF]

A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the first complete cure for cancer.

“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A- ... one-578939

[verlyol]

I read last night this announcement ... However, this method still has to go through all phases of clinical trials.
But it seems that is quite revolutionary .... Especially that this is a global treatment for all cancer.

[JimF]

It will be interesting to see what role Folding can play; peptides are related to proteins.

[verlyol]

yes it is possible that some simulations were necessary to have this result. In this case In this case, folding@home's work could help...

[Joe_H]

For a more practical view of this story - https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-m ... -true/all/

[JimF]

Well, if you assume that it won't work as they describe, then you can certainly criticize them for not providing supporting data. It depends on how you interpret "offer". And if they are applying for patents, as they state, they won't want to say much publicly about the details for a while.

But as for "playing with the hopes", etc., what does that buy them? Maybe they want to inflate the price of their company? Or maybe they think they have made a great discovery, and don't want to delay lining up partners for their project. I think too many assumptions are being made on both sides with too little data for now.

[ProDigit]

A friend on facebook posted it last week.
I was actually surprised. It's "MAY" have found, not "HAS" found.
If they had found a cure, we'd be folding for nothing (at least on the cancer department); or it will be a very small batch to fold (just see how the medicine folds with proteins, and that's it).

[Ricorocks]

Just when you think you have the fast ball down pat, life throws a curve ball. Strike 3. We all want them to succeed, but that curve ball may strike them out. Good err knowledge come from failed attempts, so great if they get it, if not we inch fwd.