Simon_Drake
Simon_Drake t1_jc38em6 wrote
Reply to comment by Sneezy_monkey in European court at odds with British values, says Suella Braverman by Mighty_L_LORT
Don't worry, we'll have a chance to vote them out by January 31st 2025.
Simon_Drake t1_j5gad2a wrote
There's an XKCD summarising a genuine scientific study into this exact idea from 2011 https://xkcd.com/938/
They developed a technique to genetically modify the immune cells of a patient's own body to make them target the cancer cells. They used a virus to genetically modify the immune cells and there's one kinda famous virus that scientists have been studying in detail for a while which already modifies immune cells. They used genetically modified HIV to supercharge the immune system to fight off cancer.
I haven't read the original study so I don't know how successful it was.
Simon_Drake t1_jc396hu wrote
Reply to comment by NohPhD in NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again by Byzantium
The New Horizons probe sent out to Pluto had the same CPU as the PlayStation One. Not a CPU of similar performance or using that as a benchmark for comparison, actually the same CPU model used in the PS1. When it launched the PS2 was already out but they like to finalise the hardware years in advance and run extensive tests rather than using cutting edge circuitry.