Scientists find treatment to kill every kind of cancer tumor

Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with, the New York Post reported.

The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune system, according to Science Magazine.

This protein is produced in healthy blood cells, but researchers at Stanford University found that cancer cells produced an inordinate amount of the protein thus tricking the immune system into not destroying the harmful cells.

With this observation in mind, the researchers built an antibody that blocked cancer's CD47 so that the body's immune system attacked the dangerous cells.

So far, researchers have used the antibody in mice with human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors transplanted into them. In each of the cases the antibody forced the mice's immune system to kill the cancer cells.

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Geoengineering, Runaway Climate Change, And The Poisoning Of Life On Earth

More major publications are trying to “condition” the population to the idea of “geoengineering” as a cure for the increasingly extreme climate. It is ever more shocking that publications like Foreign Affairs can still pretend they don’t know SRM (stratospheric aerosol geoengineering) has been a lethal reality for decades. They say “SRM could cool the planet in a few months”, really? A mountain of data to date says otherwise.

The ongoing atmospheric spraying (and jet stream manipulation with HAARP facilities ) can and does cool large regions of the planet for limited periods, but at what cost? The ongoing global geoengineering programs are making climate change far worse and quite literally are tearing the planet's life support systems apart.

As Go The Bees, So Goes Man

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying “if the bees disappear from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live…no bees..no pollination…no man”.

Bee populations are collapsing everywhere at an extremely alarming rate (as are countless species). Nearly all media and science sources are trying to blame the very rapid die-off on farm/crop chemicals, but how does one then explain the fact that the die-off is also occurring in extremely remote regions hundreds of miles from any farms?

There is only one spray program that encompasses the entire planet, aerosol geoengineering. The highly toxic bio-available heavy metal nano particles used in the ongoing geoengineering programs are being inhaled and absorbed by all life on our planet. Now add the constant bombardment of HAARP radio frequency signals and the bees have little chance. How long will the rest of us last when the bees are gone? Will not all of us eventually succumb to the geoengineering assault if it continues, just like the bees?

Runaway Climate Change is Now

Still don’t believe it?

Many still refuse to accept that our climate has been completely decimated. True, Al Gore is a hypocrite and disaster capitalist, but that fact does not change the reality unfolding around us all. Even mainstream media is no longer able to ignore the imploding climate which is now in a runaway state thanks to “feedback loops” like mass methane release.

Human activity has done great damage to the planet, but there is one factor that stands out far above all others as the single greatest causal factor for extreme climate disruption and the die-off of global species now occurring at mass extinction rates:  geoengineering.

The planet we all have known is changing by the day and will soon be very different from the one we have known; this is now inevitable. If geoengineering is not stopped, our biosphere may eventually not support life at all.

Help Us Bring Geoengineering To Light While It Still Matters

It's up to all of us to get up off our backsides, get into the trenches, and start helping. We don’t have tomorrow. Get educated on the dire issue of geoengineering, put together credible data to share with others in the form of flyers and DVDs like Why In The World Are They Spraying, make copies, and pass it out. Use the Internet to locate contacts for groups, organizations, journalists, and individuals that would care if they knew and send them links to articles. In this way countless “spot fires” of awareness can be created which will soon enough merge into a giant blaze of consciousness that cannot be extinguished. Once enough of those carrying out these programs realize they are killing themselves along with the rest of us, the spraying can realistically be stopped.

Source: Activist Post

Scientists find antibody ‘roadmap’ to AIDS vaccine in African patient

Scientists on a quest for an antibody-based AIDS vaccine said Wednesday they found promising clues in the uncommonly “robust” natural immune response of a patient in Africa.

Studying blood samples over a three-year period after the person was infected, researchers were witness to a microscopic battle between the virus and antibodies — both evolving as they sought to gain the upper hand.

For the first time, scientists were able to follow the full chain of events leading to the patient naturally producing broadly neutralising antibodies (BnAbs)– so called because they attack different strains of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.

“The current research… fills gaps in knowledge that have impeded development of an effective vaccine for a virus that has killed more than 30 million people worldwide,” said a statement from Duke Medicine, which participated in the study by a team of researchers in the United States and Malawi.

“We learned from this individual how the antibodies get induced with the hope that this information can be a map for how to induce these antibodies as a preventive vaccine,” added team leader Barton Haynes, director of Duke University’s Human Vaccine Institute.

Antibodies are the foot soldiers of the immune system, latching onto viruses or microbial intruders and tagging them for destruction by specialised “killer” cells.

Most antiviral vaccines are made by priming antibodies to recognise germs, but the method has not yet been successful in AIDS control.

One of vaccine developers’ fiercest foes, the HIV virus typically evolves too fast to ever be left open to antibody attack.

The individual in the study, from an African country that is not specified, is one of about 20 percent of HIV-infected people whose immune systems naturally produce BnAbs.

Unfortunately, this generally only happens two to four years after infection and is of no help to the host who will still develop AIDS if not treated with anti-retroviral drugs.

“When broad neutralising antibodies are made they are no help to the person already infected. The notion is however; if they are present before infection, then they can prevent infection and prevent insertion of the virus genetic material into the host genetic material,” Haynes told AFP of the research published in the journal Nature.

In monkeys, BnAbs have shown to prevent infection.

A BnAbs-based vaccine is being keenly pursued in the battle against AIDS, an immune system-wrecking disease first recognised in 1981.

Almost one percent of the world’s population today is infected with HIV, according to the United Nations.

In this study, researchers isolated an antibody named CH103, and found that it was triggered by a specific protein envelope found on an early, little-mutated form of the HIV virus.

This meant the antibodies may only be stimulated to respond in the presence of this protein or other similar ones on the virus.

While most antibodies require about 10 to 15 mutations to be able to attack their target, potent BnAbs show 40 to 100, said a comment on the study also published by Nature, which described the findings as a possible “roadmap” to an HIV vaccine.

The CH103 antibody had a much lower number of mutations, which may explain how it developed so quickly in this patient.

The scientists said they had gained a “critical insight” for developing a potential vaccine.

“We are now making recombinant forms of the (protein) envelopes from this patient as a vaccine to immunise animals to recreate the induction of a similar type of antibody,” said Haynes.

A Nature statement said it remained to be seen whether or not the finding could be used to develop an effective vaccine.

“But it presents a strong and testable rationale that can be used to address the major challenges of creating an antibody-based HIV-1 vaccine,” it said.

Source: Raw Story

Google faces EU state fines over privacy policy merger

Summary: Google faces a string of fines in EU member states after the U.K., France, Italy and Germany prepare to launch investigations into the search giant's privacy policy.

Google's 'new' privacy policy, launched a little over a year ago, is still causing headaches in Europe. But a new pan-European investigation into the policy may cause greater troubles for the search giant.

The French data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), said today that the search giant has failed to respond to its requests to make changes to its controversial privacy policy and has handed the case to European member states to deal with the matter locally.

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The U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands were first involved in the examination of the new privacy policy — which merged around 60 different policies for Google's various products and services into one single policy.

In doing so, it could open Google to multiple fines at a local level in the coming months and quarters, once each authority has concluded its own investigation into its privacy practices.

Speaking to ZDNet, the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said that an investigation had been launched and was in its early days. An ICO spokesperson said the organization would determine whether or not Google's year-old policy breaches the U.K. Data Protection Act.

Due to the ongoing investigation, the ICO declined to comment further.

The ICO can serve a maximum £500,000 ($758,000) fine against a company that breaches U.K. data and privacy laws. Each data protection authority would have to enact their own fines separately and maximum fines vary by region.