SUPERCELL? An idea occurred to me tonight right before bed. In the West the effort in fighting disease is almost always to kill or suppress the numbers of disease organisms be they microbes, viral agents, or parasites, etc. And that’s good because pathogen suppression is helpful in reducing disease. But that is where modern Western medicine tends to stop, rather than at the next phase (which to me should not really be the next phase but a conjunctive operation) which should be the regrowth of normal healthy tissue (to replace tissues killed off, damaged, infected, or reduced by the pathogens. If you can kill the pathogen off while quickly redrawing healthy tissues to replace those damaged by the disease then complete recovery is almost always assured, but the full recovery state would be achieved very quickly compared to current medical efforts. And this tends to be my approach, reduce pathogens and pathogen complimentary conditions and simultaneously (if possible) replace those damaged tissues with healthy tissue. This also has the effect of exhausting pathogens, getting ahead of their infection rates by goring resistant cells faster than the pathogens can multiply as the pathogens are being simultaneously reduced. I call this the Suppression/Regeneration Regime, or the Reductionist/Anticipation Regime. But then the idea occurred to me just now that as you are killing off the pathogen if you could encourage the healthy tissue you are stimulating to regrow in real anticipation of pathogenic reinfection (not just immune cells but the regrown “normal cells”) to maintain their own infection data library then they might overwhelm any invaders even prior to an immune system reaction. And if the normal cells could actually confiscate some of the advantageous DNA of a pathogen (in the same way a virus does) then it might create a Supercell out of itself with the ability not only to recognize a pathogen, or even anticipate it, but it might be able to mutate itself faster than a mutated version of a prior pathogen because it actually contains some of the geno-mechanics of the original pathogen. In other words your own normal cell tissue might be able to outmutate (though in truth it wouldn’t really be a mutation at all, it would be an anticipatory adaptive response) a pathogen based on prior experience, and because it had confiscated and absorbed some of he genetic material of previous invaders, converting those capabilities to it’s own use. I’m still not sure how to do this exactly but it seems to me the solution might lie in the mitochondria as both a backup pathogenic storage library and as an anticipatory counter-engine to mutating infections. Maybe even you could develop cellular ‘anticipatory capabilities unrelated to previous infections. The danger of course would be an overactive reaction similar to a general immune system over-reaction but on the level of the healthy individual cell. You might though be able to use another agent (such as directed protein synthesis) to govern and regulate possible over-reactions to mostly prevent those.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:38:41 +0000
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