09-14-2011, 02:34 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health....html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
"Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells — a type of white blood cell that fights viruses and tumors — and gave them new genes that would program the cells to attack his cancer."
...
A few weeks later, the fevers were gone. And so was the leukemia.
. . .
Wow. An uncle of mine died two years ago from multiple myeloma. They tried this procedure twice, and it helped... a bit, but not enough. But the promise is there.
Just imagine !
(And yeah.. keep them dirty politicians off my science !)
"Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells — a type of white blood cell that fights viruses and tumors — and gave them new genes that would program the cells to attack his cancer."
...
A few weeks later, the fevers were gone. And so was the leukemia.
. . .
Wow. An uncle of mine died two years ago from multiple myeloma. They tried this procedure twice, and it helped... a bit, but not enough. But the promise is there.
Just imagine !
(And yeah.. keep them dirty politicians off my science !)