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Breeding Cancer-Proof Mice
Bob Vila's Hammer writes "In an article at New Scientist, research scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina have been able to breed a cancer-proof mouse. The lucky new finds, some 700 cancer-proof mice, have the ability to destroy numerous different kinds of cancer cells in their bodies very efficiently without the use of T-cells (white blood cells). Instead the body's innate immune system attacks the tumor cells and ruptures them with neutrophils and macrophages. What is so astounding within early findings is that the power of these mice to resist cancer seems to be unlimited and as well, a genetic trait able to be passed down to further generations without the negative results of previous mouse breeds with autoimmune diseases."
Researchers today announced the development of a cancer proof mouse. In an excellent report, 1000 mice were bred, none of which developed cancer. Unfortunately, their average life span was 12.3 minutes.
The last remaining humans have been enslaved by a breed of mice that developed the ability to self-heal when attacked...the mice escaped from a lab in 2003 where they had been bred to be cancer-proof...unfortunately, nobody noticed the other "side effects" ;-)
Seriosuly, though...I lost a parent to cancer at a young age, so it'd be nice to see some solid progress on this front.
-psy
And what happens if these mice & the mice bred by Harvard (that are incredibly susceptible to cancer) mate? Do they implode?