Using Salmonella to Destroy Cancer Tumors? New Research May Make The Theory A Reality »
Posted By WikiMap 3 months ago in NewsWhen anyone mentions salmonella most people envision the misery of food poisoning. Every year the media publishes more stories about people who were sickened by salmonella found in bad eggs or under cooked chicken. But through the work of a group of research scientists there may soon come a time when salmonella loses some of its bad reputation and becomes a force for good as well as a source of misery.
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hyperbola3 months ago
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This article is a good example of the dangers of trivialized popular science.
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""Weiss and Bartels named this messenger substance after its basic function in the body: tumor necrosis factor or TNF as their report refers to it."""
In fact TNF has been known for decades already and what this article reports is a fairly insignificant new little wrinkle on a molecule that is probably one of the most studied proteins around (diden't even tell you that TNF is a protein did they). -
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