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Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials

TaeKwonDood tips us to news that a new cancer resistance treatment is going into clinical trials after being quite successful at eradicating cancer in mice. Researchers discovered that certain white blood cells called granulocytes from cancer-immune mice were able to cure cancer in other mice. Now, doctors are putting out the call for healthy granulocyte donors in order to test how well it works on humans. The article quotes lead researcher Zheng Cui saying, "In mice, we've been able to eradicate even highly aggressive forms of malignancy with extremely large tumors. Hopefully, we will see the same results in humans. Our laboratory studies indicate that this cancer-fighting ability is even stronger in healthy humans."

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  1. A Heartwarming film about a group of plucky by Icarus1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...young scientists, who discover that the real cure for cancer was inside of them all along!

  2. Re:Cool! by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course when the whacko extremists are the only ones still dieing of cancers it'll be because of a gov conspiracy to kill them off.

    Think of it as evolution in action.

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