• Question: What’s the disease that scientists have less controlled or more trouble for finding a solution for it and why

    Asked by anon-256607 to James_the_Scientist, Sophie, Sophie, Sandra, Rachel, Karen on 9 Jun 2020. This question was also asked by anon-256862.
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      James Beswick answered on 9 Jun 2020:

      It may not be particularly exciting or deadly, but one of the most well known diseases is amongst the most difficult to cure – the common cold! One of the huge obstacles to finding a cure is that there are over 160 different ‘strains’ of the virus which causes the common cold – so you actually need to find a cure for all 160 strains if you are going to find a cure for the common cold overall. There are also examples of other diseases which are very complicated (such as cancer). Again, it would be very difficult to find a cure for every cancer because ‘cancer’ actually is a name given to a collection of similar diseases – so each type of cancer is slightly different.

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