US Regulators Fast Track GMO Treatment For Leukemia

[angelatc]

Despite the crazy brigade that trolls the forum screeching unsubstantiated claims that GMOs are evil and big Pharma is sitting on cures for cancer, here's an excellent bit of news that should shut them up. (SHould, but wont, because they're either idiots or insane.)

US regulators fast-track novel leukemia therapy

US regulators on Monday put an experimental immunotherapy agent on the fast track to market approval, after 89 percent of leukemia patients in early trials saw their cancers disappear.



The personalized immunotherapy known as CTL019 was developed by the University of Pennsylvania and was designated a "breakthrough therapy" by the US Food and Drug Administration. That means the experimental therapy will benefit from a speedier than average review process and will get extra attention from the FDA toward development for market. It is the first cancer immunotherapy to receive the breakthrough designation, and only the fifth biologic agent so far.
The approach works by extracting a patient's T-cells, then genetically programming them in the lab to target cancer cells that produce a protein called CD19.
The altered T-cells are then re-injected into the patient's body, where they multiply and attack cancer.

Hurrah for science, down with the idiots who will now start screeching that cancer patients would be better off without this new therapy, because GMO!

[FindLiberty]

Yea science, great news!

That said, watch out for any unintended side effects (zombie outbreak, etc.)

[Kelly.]

The approach works by extracting a patient's T-cells, then genetically programming them in the lab to target cancer cells that produce a protein called CD19.

someone STILL doesnt know what a GMO is.

are you paid to post here? serious question

[angelatc]

someone STILL doesnt know what a GMO is.

are you paid to post here? serious question

How nice to see you publicly celebrating your ignorance. Again.


The headline isn't mine, btw.

And it's a violation of the forum guidelines to accuse people of being paid to post. Reported.

[Root]

There is nothing in this world that will allow me to trust "US Regulators". The US Government has a long history of lying their asses off to us about everything. I don't think I'd want to be one of the first people to receive this.

Will Obamacare policies even cover this new treatment?

[presence]

I have no issue with GMO's in medicine or GMO's in food. I have no issue with any product in the free market. I do have issue with people selling/marketing GMO's under the auspice that they are not GMO's as that is fraud. If its a fish its a fish. If its a fish with pig genes... its not a fish; its a pigfish.


I think its great they've found a potential cure to leukemia through GMO science. My son is dependant on IV GMO therapy every 3 days. Two generations ago his condition was terminal; now his life expenctancy is normal.

[Petar]

Despite the crazy brigade that trolls the forum screeching unsubstantiated claims that GMOs are evil and big Pharma is sitting on cures for cancer, here's an excellent bit of news that should shut them up. (SHould, but wont, because they're either idiots or insane.)

US regulators fast-track novel leukemia therapy

Hurrah for science, down with the idiots who will now start screeching that cancer patients would be better off without this new therapy, because GMO!

You lose any sort of point once you start lumping too many things together...

[dannno]

Not every scientist in the establishment is bad, in fact most of them are good. But they're so compartmentalized and the funding is so tightly controlled that it makes it difficult for good scientists to do certain things.

I hope this cures a lot of people of leukaemia with minimal side effects.

I still don't trust it in my food yet because of the type of companies that do the research and make money off of products that are sold specifically to go with their GMO seed technologies. I also don't like the idea of GMO cross pollinating with the real stuff.