The Lonely Hearts Club

[Misaki-chan]

Ok! I'll remember! But does the SuperBug just give you a nasty cold?

[Anti-APTX4869]

it's like normal bacteria and such but it's powerful and resistant.

[Misaki-chan]

Ok then. I see. It's just a cold that's annoying to get rid of. So, is there a vaccine yet?

[Anti-APTX4869]

No, that's why it is called superbug

[Misaki-chan]

Oh. I wonder if a vaccine will be found in the future....

[Anti-APTX4869]

Then there will be a stronger ones. Since they mutate when there are stronger Vaccine/Antibiotics, even the scientists are limiting it.

[Misaki-chan]

Really? How so?

[Anti-APTX4869]

You see, since Natural selection makes specific things to survive.

Let's say.... there is a tall tree and the leaves are only at the top.

If there were Tall Giraffes and Short Giraffes, The tall ones would be the one to survive.

In this case, Survive means "to be able to pass genes to next generation to pass it to the next".... well that's simplified. but it basically means that.

So, eventually, the short ones will die out, or "Extinct." This is a concept from Evolution.

Same idea for mutation in superbug.

If there was a bacterium that was exposed to the vaccine/antibiotics/antibodies, and somehow survived, it will become resistant to them, and eventually mutate into stronger bacterium.

Ever wonder why cold is a common sickness? Yea, the bacteria that cause cold evolves everyday.

[Misaki-chan]

Really? I would say that's cool, but people getting sick isn't good.

[Lia.]

Dunno whether they will make a cure for cancer soon~

[Misaki-chan]

Who knows? *shrugs*

[Anti-APTX4869]

Cancer is an interesting subject I'd like to learn more.

From what I know,

Cancer occurs when a cell continues to divide when it is not even needed. It can be genetics since a gene holds the ability to divide and not to divide at certain point.

Cure for cancer is to remove the tumor. It's basically cutting out the bad cells that is multiplying uncontrollably. Another way is chemotherapy if the tumor is located in the brain.

[Misaki-chan]

Aren't there other ways?

[Anti-APTX4869]

Of course, we know:

-avoid Alcohol. It damages Liver and digestive system.

-avoid Smoking. Damages lungs.

And from what I know... maybe not true but here is what I think...

The other ways are...

-avoid burnt meat. Burnt nitrogen-based food (since meat is muscle and muscles are proteins, which are Amino Acid Chains and they contain Nitrogen-base compounds....) which is can cause cancer in the digestive system. idk why yet though.

-But ironically, Burnt Veggies/fruit actually help clean digestive tracts since it is pure carbohydrate and all.. they don't have nitrogen-base compounds. but don't eat too much.

[Misaki-chan]

Ok! I see. So avoid burnt meat, eh? I see.... I see....

[Anti-APTX4869]

I'm not sure about the brain tumor though.

It is mostly Genetics, but it can be environmental.

Brain tumor is something you have to watch out for.

It's the toughest to cure i think...

I think the early symptoms were continuing of headaches in the same spot multiple times.

[Lia.]

Cancer... has to do with Genetics?

[Misaki-chan]

A little, yes.

[Anti-APTX4869]

Yes. Since a gene must be activated to grow, or destroy itself when it is unnecessary, you need a gene to have it activated. That't the job for DNA, which is a stored information of the cell, It tells the cell to grow in certain way. When that gene is somehow disturbed in the process (mutation is may be the cause of this), then the cell might start to grow uncontrollably to the state that what we call a tumor, an unwanted, or unnecessary cells that grew nonstop.

DNA has the information to control how the gene must be activated in a way. Which is why we have different organ. Every cell maybe the same, but they are activated by different stimulus making them different cell.

[Misaki-chan]

I see.

[Anti-APTX4869]

Biology... too many stuff

I'm amazed how I can remember all that crap stuff

[Misaki-chan]

I am too.

[Lia.]

Ah well...

which means that

descendants of a cancer patient hold a high risk of getting Cancer themselves?

[Misaki-chan]

O_____o Maybe, but I hope not.... My grandma dies from cancer, so I'm a bit scared now.... Yet again, she worked with the stuff, so maybe I might be ok, since it wasn't originally there....

[Lia.]

and my grandmother died from Cancer too... that was let's see... 10 years ago.