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Anti Radiation Drug Developed

zogger
Mon Jan 28 19:56:24 -0800 2008
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Results are promising for a new carbon nanotube based anti radiation drug that has been developed. The researchers combined the carbon nanotubes-using them as the drug delivery tool, with common food preservatives BHT and BHA, used for the removal of free radicals produced by the radiation blast, which cause a lot of the harm. In small animal studies, it was thousands of times more effective than previously developed drugs. The government has awarded funding to fast track a human usable form of the drug.

.."Tour said he began his research with the goal of finding a drug to protect astronauts on long-duration space missions from the radiation to which they are exposed outside Earth's atmosphere.".....more fast tracked, there. Very interesting. One question, not to take away anything from the results, just the afterthought here-what happens to the carbon nanotubes once inside the cells?

Anti Radiation Drug Developed
Uncle Entity
Mon Jan 28 21:51:13 -0800 2008
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One question, not to take away anything from the results, just the afterthought here-what happens to the carbon nanotubes once inside the cells?

In a couple years you get to see ex-joe, wife and flipper baby on the cover of USA Today telling how he was forced to take expermental drugs by Uncle Sam.

Yep, I'm bitter...
Anti Radiation Drug Developed
Bruce Perens
Tue Jan 29 08:51:17 -0800 2008
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Flipper babies are historicaly a result of thalidomide, which was not allowed in the US at the time (about 52 years ago) and is only now allowed for treating auto-immune syndromes and other severe diseases.

Now, the US government has administered any number of non-FDA-approved substances to people without their knowledge or without proper information, including LSD (project MKULTRA), Mefoquinine (Lariam) and herbicides (Rainbow Herbicides). I think pretty much every GI got acetominophen (in a pill called "ABC" also containing aspirin and caffine) as a general analgesic, for years before you could buy Tylenol over the counter - but I've not found any background on this.

I guess you're referring to the dioxin in Agent Orange. I see this is implicated in spina bifida. Flipper babies?
Anti Radiation Drug Developed
Uncle Entity
Tue Jan 29 12:08:02 -0800 2008
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I guess you're referring to the dioxin in Agent Orange.

Nope, the expermental anti-nerve agent pills during Gulf War I. Now that I think about it I think it was Time Magazine that ran that story along with breaking the mustard gas exposure.

The only big exposure that I know that they track, not the mustard gas but a post-war destroyed ammo bunker incident, I was already out of country before it happened. I found this database once that had the unit's projected exposure rates along with results of tracking of medical complications but it doesn't really apply to me.

But my real point was that the government will 'fast track' this drug right into the hands of US troops and only then will you find out the side effects of nanotubes. Kind of like the one size fits all anti-malaria pills that alledgedly destroyed the liver of one of the guys in my reserve unit during Gulf War II.
Anti Radiation Drug Developed
Bruce Perens
Tue Jan 29 12:20:26 -0800 2008
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My dad was a reserve. He got to fight in World War II and Korea. At least they kept him in Europe for the Korean war. Ham radio guy, of course got in the signal corps. He had a purple heart, one incredibly close call with a bullet and his worst injury was when a phone pole he was climbing on fell at some training camp in the US. It had termites.

It's patriotic to fight for your country, but given the way they treat you as just another munition, you are putting your life at risk whether or not anyone ever points a weapon at you and often your worst enemy is the US Government. We need to fix that.
Anti Radiation Drug Developed
duhavid
Tue Jan 29 18:44:17 -0800 2008
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We dont treat our troops as well as they deserve, do we?

I think it is a damn shame.
 

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