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Cure for radiation sickness found?
Ronen Bergman
Published: 17.07.09, 00:18
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1. can i get 100kg please?
ben Ish   (07.17.09)
2. Great News! Bomb Iran Tomorrow!
Jewish Refugee   (07.17.09)
Our Jewish Scientists with the help of Israel as well as U.S. defense and health department has made an important breakthrough; of course if its true. But if the humans survive the nuclear attack: I don't think that the environment will on which human being depend to survive at the first place. That said, the news is great but Iranian amitions have to be stopped. For more please visit: http://israelactnow.blogspot.com/
3. You can get the same effect with tofu and lime juice
Mroslec, ,   Yugo   (07.17.09)
Mix the tofu with lime juice, drink all at once. Take flight to New Zealand. You'll be fine.
4. anyone boycotting Israel can't have any ....
rachel ,   usa   (07.17.09)
especially not Marco
5. 75 kiliton bombs exploded at 1,500 feet
Ted Zork ,   Orlando USA   (07.17.09)
We had no enviromental problems at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Small bombs exploded at 1,000 or more feet = No environmental impact . Ask Japan = They will confirm this just as we did. Thousands of huge bombs exploded on the ground would cause the Nuclear winter that would wipe us all out. Russia and the USA have no plans to explode 18,000 huge nuclear weapons on the ground .
6. Yeah
J ,   Chicago   (07.17.09)
We are certainly the worst people on Earth. Have done nothing for humanity. Lower than dogs. The world would be better off without us. I am truly proud.
7. CBLI should soar tomorrow
Avram ,   Hollywood, USA   (07.17.09)
Wow - this is hugh! CBLI should go up at least 10% tomorrow.
8. Excellent News!!
Christy ,   Boston, US   (07.17.09)
9. Jews are blessed in helpful developments.Muslims, well all
they know how to do ,   is destroy society.   (07.17.09)
10. Very good! One more Israeli invention to boycott.
leo ,   USA   (07.17.09)
11. Great news! Now if something can be found to reverse the
Rivkah   (07.17.09)
blindness caused by looking at a nuclear explosion. Chelating out radioactive isotopes is difficult, so the Lord inspired these scientists in my opinion, to give hope to a world that is about to go mad with nuclear war, World War III, in fact.
12. I would say a SHEECHEIANU on this one - I'm speechless-
gabriela ba   (07.17.09)
13. השבח לא-לת and to the scientists
gabriela ben ari   (07.17.09)
14. waoww ! einstein would have wanted to shake Gurkow's hand !!
avi   (07.17.09)
15. Discovery
Canadian Heeb ,   Ottawa, Canada   (07.17.09)
Pride. We continue to change the world.
16. this company is selling for $4.35 a share on the nasdaq.
debra ,   usa   (07.17.09)
as i write this. sounds like a great medical breakthrough. i hope it fulfills its promise. very exciting news.
17. Could it be used after a bad sunburn to prevent skin cancer!
(07.17.09)
18. Now start cashing the millions and millions of dollars ASAP
gabriela ben ari ,   :-)   (07.17.09)
19. ...
anon   (07.17.09)
The "suicide mechanism" is used to kill the cells before they become cancerous. I wouldn't be surprised if within a year all of those test subjects all die of cancer.
20. Radiation therapy
Mikeket ,   Ottawa Canada   (07.17.09)
Can you say pump and dump?
21. Re: preventing cancer
Alex ,   USA   (07.17.09)
No, it only stops cells from committing suicide when exposed to radiation. It doesn't repair the radiation damage.
22. Yet Again, G-D Keeps His Bible Promise that through the Jews
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.17.09)
ALL of the nations will be blessed! I believe that many people who have received substantial amounts of radiation in the past whether through x-rays (mammograms for women to check for breast cancer, give 1,000 times more radiation than a chest x-ray!) or radiation received in the past as a cancer "treatment" - would like to know if the amazing new treatment would help them eradicate the extremely harmful effects of radiation they received in the past. Congratulations and many thanks to Israel for your great contributions to ALL humanity!
23. joos?
Denver ,   Denver   (07.17.09)
Why are the scientists identified as "Jewish-American"? Who, exactly, self-identifies themselves as "Jewish-Americans"? "Hi, I'm Meshach, and I'm a Jewish-American." Nope, I don't see it happening.
24. Wonderful
blah   (07.17.09)
Hundreds of monkeys nuked to death so we humans can protects ourselves when we nuke each other.. what a wonderful species we are.
25. #22 Linda
David ,   USA, exile   (07.17.09)
Very well put, however, one correction. It is not through the Jews that all nations would be blessed, it was through Avraham. Avraham was not a Jew, he was Ivri. It was not until his great grand child Judah had children that we had Jews. But, that is a minor issue. It is through what the world now calls Jews that all are blessed. You can be a child of Avraham without being a Jew but you cannot be a Jew without being a child of Avraham. Conversion is another issue however.
26. Fantastic News
Avi   (07.17.09)
and it could not have come at a better moment. How soon will it be available to the public-maybe with the masks?
27. #25 correction
altruist   (07.17.09)
ivri is actually the same thing as jehud. 'ivri' comes from the name "over" (from "the other side") in hebrew, which is directed to "spirituality" (ruchaniyut). on the other side 'jehud' comes from the hebrew word "yachud" (together), which is the final goal for human kind to achive. the highest level (125 stepts of spirituality) is to be called jehud (or zadik and other words). avraham reached the highest level as the first to have discovered spirituality (aka - the uper force) and later 12 of his students who formed the ancient israeli roots (including the names cohen and levy etc...). the jews therefor have a special job to do, which is being "or-le-goim". it means jews must "fix their souls" in first hand, and only then "forward method" to the rest of the nations. it is further written, that as long as a jew is not fixing his soul while living on earth, he will keep returning after every death, until he does so. kabbalah was hidden until 1995 and was to be revealed to the mass from there on, because the critical time has come to do so. as long as we dont do that, the jews (and the world) will suffer great blows, like the finacial crisis for example (first smack of 10), natural catastrophes, world wars 3 & 4, etc, to come. this is actually what was meant by "the chosen people". we arent chosen because we're better or special, but because we are to do our duty and spread "god's light" forward to the rest of the nations (called "the body"). and so on... i know it's alot of information written above, sorry for that, but the real kabbalah (not whats being sold, like red strings and all the bullshit) explains everything very detailed and with precision. you can find more info at kab.tv if interested :-) shabat shalom
28. Yeah It Is Wonderful
Nukem ,   Spokane USA   (07.17.09)
Yeah bummer about the monkeys... Kind of. Being able to save human lives the next time a reactor malfunctions? Or the inevitable - some radical setting off a nuke or dirty bomb to waste innocent people? It's invaluable. And yeah, wonderful. Grats to this genius who discovered it, engineered it, whatever. Worth the lives of a few hundred monkeys in my opinion.
29. Hurdles of the technology
Mark ,   Austin, TX, USA   (07.17.09)
1) they say that the chemical does not affect cancer cells... if it does, then radiation treatment would fail. it's gonna take clinical human trials to nail that down for sure. 2) they say that they haven't observed any increased rate of cancer. that will also take human trials. damage to dna is going to have an effect. however, keep in mind that our planet's crust has an UNUSUALLY high amount of uranium ore in it... life on this planet is designed to withstand certain amounts of radiation. probably more than any life we could find out in the universe. also, we have only seen radiation deaths and cancer deaths based on the cell's suicide function... which this chemical prevents. we really have no idea what will happen when we do this. It could wind up making people just live shorter lifespans, make people infertile, have no deletarious effects because the body's ability to repair dna has been underestimated due to the cell suicide function, or we could greatly accellerate mutations and thus evolution. I for one welcome our Mutant Zombie Superhuman God Like overlords.
30. Another Madoff in the making?
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