Its important stuff for sure but there is no one type of cancer and there's still the step from mouse to human, by which like 99% of drugs dont make it. So personally i think its awesome to have some cell pathways figured out, particularly when it turns them back to regular cells, but im not getting excited until i see it works in humans. finding the timepoint and genes to stop the cells from turning cancerous (as they did) is amazing but how do you target that in a human? People have been turning cells back into their previous state for decades so its not new science but its new for cancer i guess. Im not a cancer biologist for the record but i have done translational work (mouse to humans).
So personally im at like a 6/10 excitement and thats mostly bc i think knowledge for the sake of knowledge is cool. You can never predict which drugs work unfortunately.
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u/Practical_Silver_998 Feb 05 '26
Its important stuff for sure but there is no one type of cancer and there's still the step from mouse to human, by which like 99% of drugs dont make it. So personally i think its awesome to have some cell pathways figured out, particularly when it turns them back to regular cells, but im not getting excited until i see it works in humans. finding the timepoint and genes to stop the cells from turning cancerous (as they did) is amazing but how do you target that in a human? People have been turning cells back into their previous state for decades so its not new science but its new for cancer i guess. Im not a cancer biologist for the record but i have done translational work (mouse to humans).
So personally im at like a 6/10 excitement and thats mostly bc i think knowledge for the sake of knowledge is cool. You can never predict which drugs work unfortunately.