Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Engineered Immune Cells Beat Back Cancer

This is perhaps the biggest news I’ve read to date on cancer fighting technology. Aparently researchers studying a man whose immune system fought off cancer were able to isolate the genes responsible. They then introduced this modification into the white blood cells of other cancer patients. The results were astonishing. The modification enhances the T-cell’s ability to detect cancer cells and attack them. The experiment resulted in complete remission for 2 of the 17 patients in the test. That alone is pretty amazing. Thanks to my Mom for telling me about this story…

While this has no doubt been out for a little while, I thought it was pretty funny. At the risk of looking like an AMD fanboy, here it is:

10. Tried to follow their own roadmap to get to the duel
9. Decided to take the “front-side bus” to the duel; got stuck in a
bottleneck
8. The “Intel Inside” stickers they used to package the cores
together keep melting
7. Too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Itanic
6. “Hey, we don’t expect anyone to actually buy these things!“
5. Didn’t want to compete when they realized that the duel would
involve actual “rules” of fair competition
4. They couldn’t get a permit from the fire department to emit that
much heat
3. No systems available yet — protective clothing used by
manufacturers only safe for up to 149 watts
2. Dell told them they weren’t allowed to participate

And the number one reason Intel didn’t accept the dual-core duel:

1. Moore’s Law has been replaced by “Paul’s Paradox”: the number
of canceled products per year at Intel will double every year
after the introduction of the AMD Opteron™ processor.