that's why mi love all dem bush medicine that granny used to talk bout
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Jamaican Scientist offered $11billion for Cancer cure patent
2015-05-29 15:58:39
2015-05-29 16:03:30
In reply to ponderiver
You got me hexcited there with the $11B number...den I saw is was in J$.
2015-05-29 16:08:55
In reply to HumbleCalf
it is still $100m US and counting
2015-05-29 16:11:46
In reply to ponderiver
Agree, but I can understand rejecting $100M USD but not 11B USD.
2015-05-29 16:33:31
In reply to ponderiver
no one gives you his best number first, tell them you looking for US$275 million!
2015-05-29 17:03:53
In reply to camos
For cancer that's not enough. Not a penny less than a billion USD.
As a matter of fact, we want all of JAs debt forgiven! I would take that. 
2015-05-29 17:07:47
In reply to HumbleCalfI like your counter, now we talking!
2015-05-29 17:09:15
In reply to HumbleCalf
Fully agree with you... and with him!
The sooner we learn to keep our resources at home and develop them ourselves... and make dem come fi buy it at prices we set, the better.
Don't sell yuh birthright!!
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2015-05-29 17:11:34
In reply to camos
Indeed! Now we talking!
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2015-05-29 17:33:36
Big Pharmas usually wait until clinical trials to step in .The fact that they made a move pre-clinical trials say a lot for the potential of the drug.
“It works on 12 kinds of cancers so far; two or three types of breast cancer, neuroblastoma, lung, melanoma, adenocarcinoma, prostate etc.”
Now that is what you call a block buster.
2015-05-29 17:42:51
In reply to ponderiver
My bonafide Taylor Hall brethren...
2015-05-29 17:45:43
In reply to Ewart
Don't sell yuh birthright!!
exactly, we can develope our own eco medicine ... Damn we have been doing that fuh years . If Babylon wasn't fighting us we could have told the IMF years ago to go suck salt
2015-05-29 21:30:39
Ahyuh tell wussdem i just had a small cup of neem + kariela tea. 1 neem tea bag n 1 kariela tea bag....low boil it, then drink it warm! Purge d blood n come evening time, d 'bwoy' iss up fuh aunty!!!
2015-05-30 11:38:35
In reply to ponderiver
Anybody think as soon as this reach foreign hands, it dead off the market so people have to continue buss them pocket with treatment and not cure?
2015-05-30 11:57:31
In reply to HumbleCalf
For cancer that's not enough. Not a penny less than a billion USD.
Mek him gwan – dem americans will coopt his formula and dare him to sue – he will die 100 years before realize a penny
2015-05-30 12:49:14
There are other rich nations that would give him whatever he ask for,check what Russia might give.
2015-05-30 13:39:51
Excited in the name of cancer survivor and future cancer victims, and Guyana (part of WI). 
GuyJam bhai bhai!
However
See on Facebook how many hundreds of guaranteed cures for cancer?
Even some Duncie one above got a hard on after ages. How we know that is true? Or is it from 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch?
Talk is cheap. Somebody offered me $111 billion. I seh so! The New Nation even won't publish that story based on hearsay.
Responsible journalism should check things out.
Maybe the Cleaner did.
I would take the money and run, keep 51% shares and let dem chaps study more, do studies lasting decades to prove or disprove the claims, establish safety in animals, then people.
Some drugs might work but could kill you out with toxic effects before it even reaches the cancer site.
2015-05-31 06:22:13
In reply to ponderiver
that's quite an interesting read....
2015-05-31 08:00:26
In reply to Goofballs
Guinea Hen weed is not a drug.
In reply to Jen
What we should be doing with this and other resources is to develop them so that all the benefits and control remain in our territories. Develop them... with outside partnership, if needed... but maintain control.
By development I mean to include the means of production: the creation of factories and systems, the resultant provision of openings for labour in technology and otherwise.
And all this will mean reduction in unemployment, the maintenance and strengthening of national sovereignty, the important inflow of hard currency, and the many goodies that flow from that.
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2015-05-31 10:37:11
In reply to Ewart
Guinea Hen weed is not a drug.
I knew guinea hen, guinea fowl and guinea pig, not the weed!
Jamaica has the weed, which is not an illegal drug now even in many parts of US.
Can't ask folks if they use drugs anymore as most now don't consider weed a drug. Have to ask specifically.
On a more serious note, majority of prescription "drugs" originated from plant or plant extracts and got developed into pills or "drugs."
One study said that out of 150 new drugs coming out, 118 come from plant products.
Estimates range from 40-70 percent of drugs on the (legal) market come from plant.
2015-05-31 11:43:19
He has been studying a compound from the Guinea Hen Weed (scientific name: Petiveria alliacea) for several years which has now reached the patent stage.
With this bit of information why is he certain that variations of his research will not be pursued and perhaps patented too?
Big companies have ways of getting around patents and he better be careful and seek highly professional help. Hope he gets it patented in a hurry and plug all loopholes.....
2015-05-31 15:21:28
In reply to Kay Bang on.
2015-05-31 16:00:06
In reply to Ewart
Guinea Hen weed is not a drug.
boss i drink my Guinea Hen weed every other day, but it carries a strong lingering urinary residue.
2015-05-31 16:29:16
In reply to Kay
LAD Williams has been researching Guinea Hen Weed since the early 90s... I recall his first paper on the subject was published in 1997.
His patent application for the use of dibenzyl trisulphide for use in treatment of cancer was granted in 2008 and is one of 6 on the rather simple compound - notably not the only one for human pharmaceutical use.
Patent Submitted Granted
Composition and method for treating cancer [US2008070839] 2007-05-18 2008-03-20
Ink-jet recording material [US6551695] 2001-08-16 2003-04-22
Process for the preparation of diorganotrisulfide [US6555712] 2002-12-26 2003-04-29
Substituted organosulfur compounds and methods of using thereof [US7622507] 2005-11-24 2009-11-24
SUBSTITUTED ORGANOSULFUR COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USING THEREOF [US2009192146] 2009-07-30
COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING OR PREVENTING HYPOXIC OR ISCHEMIC INJURY [US8202997] 2010-05-27 2012-06-19
A quick search of clinicaltrials.gov website yields no human trials registered for the compound yet.
Given that this has not even entered phase 1 after 7 years, the pharmaceutical patent is almost certain to expire prior to any usable drug being developed for use. To be honest, I strongly suspect that the required suite of animal toxicology studies have not even started.
The group have published the relatively early stages of refining biosynthesis in this paper, which recognised that the yield from cultivated guinea-hen weed would be orders of magnitude too small for realistic use even at early trial stages.
1 Webster SA, Mitchell SA, Gallimore WA, Williams LAD, Ahmad MH, Denes D. Biosynthesis of Dibenzyl Trisulfide (DTS) from somatic embryos and rhizogenous/embryogenic callus derived from Guinea hen weed (Petiveria alliacea L.) leaf explants. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 2008; 44:112–118.
A major constraint to further development of DTS as a phyto-derived drug is that the yields extracted from various parts of P. alliacea remain very low. Johnson (1991) and Williams et al. (1997) reported yields of 0.005% (w/v) and 0.007% (w/v), respectively. This obviously presents a challenge since relatively large quantities of the natural compound are required for use in the pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, the issue of quality and standardization of the natural compound must be addressed if it is to be recognized as a natural drug of high therapeutic value. Lowe et al. (2001) and Ferrie et al. (2004) argued that it is difficult to achieve standardization due in part to the wide biochemical complexity and considerable variation that characterizes medicinal plants grown in the wild or under cultivation.
2015-05-31 17:25:52
In reply to Ayjaeghi
Thanks. I am now wondering why he didn't take the money or even explore the possibility of working with that company so that he keeps part of the hog?
2015-05-31 19:04:04
In reply to Ayjaeghi
Thanks for details.
2015-05-31 19:05:52
In reply to Kay
I am now wondering why he didn't take the money
What money? Show me the money!
Talk is cheap.
2015-05-31 19:26:31
In reply to Kay
Having seen the other patents, including the one for synthesis of di-organictrisulphides by the Indian chemists, I am left wondering... if dibenzyl trisulfide really is the sole active ingredient derived from the guinea hen weed and causing its purported effects, why then have they spent so much time trying to extract minute amounts from plants, when an chemical synthesis company in India could probably easily make kilos of the stuff without much difficulty?
2015-05-31 19:34:58
so does this work or not?
looking for testimonials....
the big picture is whether it works or not - not how much babylon willing to pay to take it off the market
2015-05-31 19:34:58
so does this work or not?
looking for testimonials....
the big picture is whether it works or not - not how much babylon willing to pay to take it off the market
(at least here)
2015-05-31 21:04:48
Greedy chap.
Why don't he take the money and start saving lives.
2015-06-01 04:28:12
This article on the blog is drawn from a story a year ago here....
Seven minute audio interview: No details mentioned...was he really offered that money?
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