Scenes From The Week

 

Liberals seemed to have the murder of President Trump on their minds last week.

 

 

Could This Be The Future Of Cancer Treatment?

 

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have “created a magnetic wire that could, in theory, be inserted into a person’s vein, where it could snatch up tumor cells that had been magnetized by special nanoparticles.” Although research has been conducted only on pigs so far, this technology has the potential to revolutionize the future of cancer treatment in humans.

“The tumor cells that the magnetic wire picks up are known as circulating tumor cells. These are cells that split off from tumors and float through the bloodstream. By drawing blood and looking for tumor cells, doctors may be able to screen for cancer.” They call this a “liquid biopsy.”

Scientists claim that this “magnetic wire detected 10 to 80 times more floating tumor cells in the blood than a typical blood draw could.”

Although their research is in the very early stages, scientists envision that magnetic wire technology could even be used to determine “if a treatment is working, or even serve as treatment itself.”

 

 

Totoaba Fever

 

Can a fish be more valuable to Mexican cartels than cocaine? It certainly looks that way.

In a small area of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, lives a fish whose bladder has been highly valued in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. Today, wealthy Chinese citizens are willing to spend $250K for just one bladder of a totoaba fish.

Unsurprisingly, Mexican cartels have taken notice of this and have become enthusiastic participants in this market. The Sinaloa cartel had quietly hoped to corner the market on these bladders, until the murder of the cartel’s principal drew much unwanted attention to the lucrative business. This brought Mexican poachers out of the woodwork, some of whom are making upwards of six figures a day selling fish organs to the cartels. Now the area is patrolled by armed Mexican soldiers, making the business much riskier and therefore,  even more profitable for poachers.

 

Have All The Accusations Of Weakness Created a Monster?

 

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don’t like to have another point of view in the room that they don’t squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling. — David Horowitz

 

As always, this is an open thread!