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Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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Possible cure for many cancers
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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/one-drug-to-shrink-all-tumors.html
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A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells.
A decade ago, biologist Irving Weissman of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, discovered that leukemia cells produce higher levels of a protein called CD47 than do healthy cells. CD47, he and other scientists found, is also displayed on healthy blood cells; it's a marker that blocks the immune system from destroying them as they circulate. Cancers take advantage of this flag to trick the immune system into ignoring them. In the past few years, Weissman's lab showed that blocking CD47 with an antibody cured some cases of lymphomas and leukemias in mice by stimulating the immune system to recognize the cancer cells as invaders. Now, he and colleagues have shown that the CD47-blocking antibody may have a far wider impact than just blood cancers.
 
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ZigmundZag
Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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Akza
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Registered: 2002-9-8 18:02:25
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possible cancer-ending breakthrough #204... step on up.
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Coriolus
Title: Outpost Ice Mexican
Posts: 905
Registered: 2002-5-17 06:20:48
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wow! Will the pharma industry allow this to happen though.. dum dum dummmm..
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GrilledCheez
Title: The Lord's Balls
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Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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Coriolus posted:
dum dum dummmm..
you should use that for your new signature.
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Coriolus
Title: Outpost Ice Mexican
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Registered: 2002-5-17 06:20:48
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GrilledCheez posted:
Coriolus posted:
dum dum dummmm..
you should use that for your new signature.
ha! thx.
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illmyrin
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Registered: 2001-12-25 11:52:26
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Eliminate the host, eliminate the cancer.
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Date Posted:
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Scarne posted:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/one-drug-to-shrink-all-tumors.html
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A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells.
A decade ago, biologist Irving Weissman of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, discovered that leukemia cells produce higher levels of a protein called CD47 than do healthy cells. CD47, he and other scientists found, is also displayed on healthy blood cells; it's a marker that blocks the immune system from destroying them as they circulate. Cancers take advantage of this flag to trick the immune system into ignoring them. In the past few years, Weissman's lab showed that blocking CD47 with an antibody cured some cases of lymphomas and leukemias in mice by stimulating the immune system to recognize the cancer cells as invaders. Now, he and colleagues have shown that the CD47-blocking antibody may have a far wider impact than just blood cancers.
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paulg_68
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ZigmundZag posted:
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