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2 minutes ago, DrBeta said:

Wooo wooo wooo wooo, you're jumping a gun. Cancer is extremely complex in that each patients tumor is different. Cancer is a result of multiple mutations, so as you can imagine one molecule cannot just stop a mutation. That's why personalized medicine is more popular now, which is basically personalized to each patients genome, specific mutation causing cancer. The same medicine will not work for everyone. 

what if the molecule is designed to mimic the tumor? I feel its down to understanding and modeling the kinetics of the billion interactions that happen when the drug is administered.

it'll still be a problem that can be solved with maths. trial and error will work until then.

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51 minutes ago, uttermost said:

human brain is constrained by our physical attributes, whereas the computer brain is constrained by processing power, and bandwidth.

which of these is easily scalable.. tell? hehe.. humans will be no match for the computers.

It's better if we coopt them, allow them infringe our brain and become part robot.

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what do u mean by this then?

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Just now, uttermost said:

what if the molecule is designed to mimic the tumor? I feel its down to understanding and modeling the kinetics of the billion interactions that happen when the drug is administered.

it'll still be a problem that can be solved with maths. trial and error will work until then.

Yep that's what people do, they identify neoantigens from a tumor, which are basically specific to each person's tumor. That's where we use machine learning algorithms. Once we identify them, you kind of make vaccines out of it to train our immune system to fight cancer. But these vaccines are different for different people, you need to make it separately for each patient. 

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