Stem cells engineered to kill cancer

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/11/29/Stem-cells-engineered-to-kill-cancer/UPI-18131322624470/

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've shown that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human melanoma.

Jerome Zack -- a scientist with the University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research -- said the tests, conducted on mice, prove blood stem cells can be genetically altered in a living organism to fight cancer.

"We knew from previous studies that we could generate engineered T-cells, but would they work to fight cancer in a relevant model of human disease, such as melanoma," Zack said Tuesday in a release.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/11/29/Stem-cells-engineered-to-kill-cancer/UPI-18131322624470/#ixzz1fHQVtAL8

[Syrinx]

1. awesome!

I want our government to quit bombing other countries, and start bombing cancer! :thumbsup:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. +1,000,000