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Old 01-07-2005, 03:54 PM
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It involves creating viruses that can only replicate in (and destroy) cancer cells. Oncoviruses, as they're called, are to current chemotherapy as carpet bombing is to a precise guided missile.
Haven't you got that backwards?

As a chemist, I'm obliged to plug photodynamic therapy, especially if someone comes up with a pH-sensitive drug so you don't have to sit in the dark for three hours after the treatment.

Science threadjack well under way.
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