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[Neruz]

Gel awesome. Probably won't give you cancer. Way better than bandaids.

[Tack]

Stops blood. Blood leaking is bad. Made of amino acids and peptides. Capitalism will make it expensive.

[Dakk]

Making stuff that kills cancer without some considerable side-effects is pretty hard, since cancer is basically what happens when your cells go insane, so they're basically still your cells, just insane.

[Neruz]

Which is, of course, the problem.

Fortunately alot of cancers are caused by outside interference, so we can significantly cut down on the insane cells if we can kill off the outside factors (usually bacteria fucking around with the cells.)

[Osmosis Jones]

I know this is a couple of pages too late, but I just felt I should mention this; HF acid is terrifying. In Western Australia a decade or so ago, a guy was dissolving geological samples when he spilt some on himself. It went through his skin, got into his bloodstream, and was pumped around his body. Over the next week it proceed to eat him from the inside out, resulting in a slow and painful death.

HF is very, VERY nasty shit.

Re Cancer; as Tack said, everything gives you cancer. Including red meat when bbq'd. You know that lovely char-grilled steak you just ate? It's gonna kill you with cancer.

[Tack]

I'm being right more and more often lately. It's starting to get on my nerves.

[Neruz]

Just about everything increases the % chance you could get cancer, including being young, being old and being middle aged.

In actual fact you're getting cancerous cells all the time, it's just that your body usually deals with them. Every now and then though it doesn't, and that results in the disease we refer to as 'cancer', whether or not you get it can be influenced by what you do or do not do, but ultimately it appears to be mostly pot luck and genetics.

[LegoLord]

Indeed.  Of course, dealing with a few rare things regularly and without protection (like highly radioactive stuff) will pretty much turn you into a cancer magnet.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I think there's some work going on on getting something to tag embryonic cancer cells for destruction or something.

[Virex]

Really, I'd think that it might actually just be the oxidisation of a carbon chain that would make it, like most other plastic products are made. That's basically what they are, liquid plastic that bonds when in contact with blood, or other salt substances.

Well, actualy, proteines and peptides (the proteines smaller brothers) are polymers of amino acids. This is an amino acid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid. the left-hand side, with the N is the so called amino group and the right-hand side with the two O's is the acid side
The R is just a side group and there are 20 side groups used in living organisms.

Now you can tie amino acids together by having the acid group react with the amino group, which makes a bond from the C atom of the acid group to the N atom of the amino group, and you lose 2 H's and an O, to form a dipeptide. Repeat this and you get tripeptides, tetrapeptides etc.

The described reaction can be done chemicaly, but that's difficult. It's easier to have an organism do it for you, and that's usually done by genetically modifying a bacteria. That's for example how insulin for diabetics is made.

And for the record, one could argue that a peptide is a kind of bioplastic, but that's not a common definition. Would be apropriate for your hair though, since that's almost exclusively made of proteins.