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[Jimmy]

The joke goes that if you read the news we've got a cure for any disease coming in the next 5 years, for the last 40 years.

[Strife26]

The joke goes that if you read the news we've got a cure for any disease coming in the next 5 years, for the last 40 years.

Give an individual 72 years, and the the odds say any and every disease won't be a problem any more.

[ChairmanPoo]

Considering this wast posted 6 years ago and people are still getting viruses I take it the drug wasn't that great after all.

you're both completely unaware of drug development cycles and unwilling to read the provided links...

[Antioch]

Considering this wast posted 6 years ago and people are still getting viruses I take it the drug wasn't that great after all.

you're both completely unaware of drug development cycles and unwilling to read the provided links...

92% of the drugs that reach the clinical stage do not reach the market. I just assumed it had failed somewhere along the way.

This drug is stuck on its funding for preclinical animal testing. So yeah they might still make it, but the odds are about 20 to 1.

[ChairmanPoo]

The odds are long, but the problem at the moment is lack of funding. Doesnt mean that it's a failure per se. At this point we might never know if it is...

BTW the statistics for biologicals are far better.

[Bumber]

Considering this wast posted 6 years ago and people are still getting viruses I take it the drug wasn't that great after all.

I thought this thread was from today up until I read this post.

I guess that says something about the speed of medical research.

[TheBiggerFish]

Considering this wast posted 6 years ago and people are still getting viruses I take it the drug wasn't that great after all.

I thought this thread was from today up until I read this post.

I guess that says something about the speed of medical research.

Yup.

[martinuzz]

Considering this wast posted 6 years ago and people are still getting viruses I take it the drug wasn't that great after all.

I thought this thread was from today up until I read this post.

I guess that says something about the speed of medical research.

Not really, it tells us something about the lengthy procedures to get new procedures and drugs approved.
If you invent a medicine that cures all cancer 100% today, it will at least take another 15 years if not more before it gets past all trials and approvals
EDIT: (in fact, if you invented a drug that cures all cancers, you'd probably never get it approved. Too many financial interests at stake)

[ChairmanPoo]

 if you invented a drug that cures all cancers, you'd probably never get it approved. Too many financial interests at stake

In other news, Novartis invents a cure for all cancers.

Well, not quite, but it's a start. It puts 99% of B cell leukemias into remission. And it's a proof of concept of the technology, which can be used to target other tumors as well. Solid tumors, even.

Full news item:

FDA gives Novartis the go ahead to marketing their propietary CART cell therapy. The first one of many.

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm574058.htm

[WealthyRadish]

I'll believe it cures all cancers when it cures anime

[Paxiecrunchle]

 I'm pretty sure that's not a virus. Posting to watch.

[wierd]

CART therapies are reprogrammed leukocytes. Viruses might be involved in the reprogramming, but it is the reprogrammed leukocytes that are the active agent here.

[Karnewarrior]

We've researched Retroviral engineering, but we still don't have an Empath's guild and Psionics.

I was lied to. 

[ChairmanPoo]

We've researched Retroviral engineering, but we still don't have an Empath's guild and Psionics.

I was lied to. 

Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce an iPad. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.

[Jimmy]

Plus there's the part where we screw up because we didn't know what we're doing. The faster you go, the higher the risk.

In any case, when there's a cure for lifestyle diseases, I'll get excited. Before that, people will smoke, eat and drink themselves sick no matter what you do.