That’s interesting, thanks for posting it.
Super interesting and related podcast.
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We’ve done this in the frog model. We’ve already shown this. We’ve shown that you can inject human oncogenes into a tadpole, and they will make tumors, and if you do that, but you force the cells into a proper electrical state, and they’re communicating with their neighbors, you prevent tumorigenesis, even though the oncogene is blazingly strongly expressed. And that’s not because, you don’t destroy the onco-protein, you’re not managing the micro level details of the transformation. No. What you’re doing is, you’re forcing that cell to stay connected to their neighbors. And when you have a mind meld with a large with a large collective that says we are building a nice kidney, we are building skin, it’s really hard for that cell to have an independent thought of, you know what, I, my goal is to proliferate as much as I can, and crawl away wherever, like metastasis. So this is, we can actually see this. Because the first thing that happens when oncogenes act, first thing they do is they cause electrical disconnection from their neighbors. And as soon as you disconnect it, well now you’re an amoeba again. And as far as you’re concerned, the rest of the body is just external environment.
Bold font reminds me of society. When somebody goes selfishly rogue, it isn’t only the direct victims who are affected, but society at large.
Tufts sues National Institutes of Health over executive order endangering federal funding for medical research - The Tufts Daily.
Tufts, currently drawing $115.2 million from the NIH for 2025, has long relied on the agency to provide funding directly to medical research and laboratory infrastructure that indirectly supports projects. These indirect costs — for which Tufts receives $26.9 million from the NIH — include the routine maintenance of laboratory space, upkeep of data processing servers and other costs not specific to individual projects.
Fascinating. Perhaps, someday, this will become reality:
