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Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-of-many-recent-possibilities dept.

Evoluder writes to tell us that scientists at Wake Forest University have found a "cancer resistant mouse" and bred it to make a small army of cancer resistant mice. When transplanting blood from one of these mice to a normal non-resistant mouse they are able to provide "lifetime cancer protection". From the article: "The cancer-resistant mice all stem from a single mouse discovered in 1999. "The cancer resistance trait so far has been passed to more than 2,000 descendants in 14 generations," said Cui, associate professor of pathology. It also has been bred into three additional mouse strains. About 40 percent of each generation inherits the protection from cancer."

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  1. Cause of the cancer resistance by castoridae · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Would be nice if they could do a "diff" between the new cancer-resistant white blood cells & normal ones. Find out what makes the new ones better, and then do more of it. Or extract the benefits, if that's reasonable once the cause is understood.

  2. The *REAL* Questions We Should Be Asking by hahiss · · Score: 1, Redundant


    1. How many buttons?

    2. Is it USB Compatible?

    3. Are there Linux drivers for it?

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