<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">What the heck is "a mathematical formula to strengthen the immune system"? This is a peculiar phrase. The snippet "the evolution of solid tumors depends on a mathematical equation" isn't a lot better. Was this article translated from another language? Does anyone have a fish I can stick in my ear? <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To think I gave up on a career as a mathematician before realizing the full power of mere equations to heal the terminally ill! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The underlying story is no doubt interesting stuff but it got a bit garbled along the way. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- s<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 2, 2005, at 10:15 PM, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Now this has made it to <A href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/31/2240240">Slashdot</A>:<I><SPAN style="font-style: italic;"> </SPAN>A group of scientists have developed a <A href="http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2005/05/spanish-scientists-use-maths-to-cure.htm">mathematical method to fight certain forms of cancer</A>. The study has taken the team several years, but <SPAN style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">the first trial on a human has been successful</SPAN>. You can read the actual <A href="http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/5/2948">paper</A>. It looks like a huge advancement in science, because there's a possibility to extrapolate the method to other types of cancer"</I> From the article: <I>"The researchers have evidence to show that all tumors grow in the same way, irrespective of the tissue or species in which they develop. In a previous paper, these researchers reported that tumor growth, rather than being exponential as commonly believed, is a much slower "linear" process similar to the growth of certain crystals and other natural phenomena.</I><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>