Lineage Cell Therapeutics Inc (LCTX)

[terry hallinan]

Ahab.

Is GTHP better at detecting cancer than dogs' noses? :-}

I am not really joking. Dogs seem quite good at detecting cancer but obviously there are differences between, say, a bloodhound and a basset hound.

Can a dog detect cancer?

Some studies have confirmed the ability of trained dogs to detect the skin cancer melanoma by just sniffing the skin lesions. Furthermore, some researchers have proven that dogs can detect prostate cancer by simply smelling patients' urine.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dogs+used+for+sniffing+cancer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab

A huge problem are false positives in prostate cancer and even with trained dogs there is a huge problem.

Phillip Frost, the reputed Warren Buffett of Biotech, is in a deadly earnest struggle with urologists to have a screening test for aggressive prostate cancer used instead of the PSA test misused for the purpose. Even the inventor of the PSA test has condemned its use for screening since the test can cause incontinence, impotence and death - among other bad things but urologists love the income.

Photons used in computers instead of slowpoke electrons have a huge advantage aside from speed. They are cool. Cooling of super computers is a huge problem. Iceland has attracted large computer databases to its remote location taking advantage of its cheap geothermal-generated electricity though geothermal can be generated most anywhere on land today.

It is also difficult to use photons because they go through each other instead of bumping into each other.

Still a handfull of analog photonic computers exist today. Lots of ways to skin a cat.

Best, Terry