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Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy
New submitter Guppy writes "A previous story reported widely in the media, and appearing both on Slashdot and XKCD, described a novel cancer treatment, in which a patient's own T-cells were modified using an HIV-derived vector to recognize and kill leukemia cells. In a follow-up publication (PDF), a further development is described which allows for a nearly unlimited choice of target antigens, broadening the types of malignancies potentially treatable with the technique (abstract)."
it works, biatches.
Anyone that has any kind of issue with this, please pack your things and get out of the civilised world. You don't deserve to live past 30 in a heated home with running water, electrical appliances and the ability to communicate with someone more than 20 feet away.
Science, people - it's the shizzle.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Service guaranties citizenship. Would you like to know more?
I'd rather do something else on Milla Jovovich. But whatever gets you math freaks off, I suppose.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I have small children that have been in daycare and public school for seven years. I've been exposed to every cold, flu, and communicable disease going around.
I bike to work. Road spray.
I dive in the ocean. Our sewage treatment is screening + dilution.
I work out at the Y.
I get exposed to so many germs and bugs that I get sick less often than the veterans here who got the military-grade boosters.
My estimation is that I'll be bitten on day four but it won't take.
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