2011-05-16, 06:46 PM
This reminds me of another 'miracle cancer cure just around the corner' article from a few years back:
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/vie...=218392802
Never heard anything more about it since.
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/vie...=218392802
Quote:It's a discovery in animals that would change everything if it turns out to be true in people. An injection of blood cells from cancer-resistant mice cures cancer in ordinary mice
Quote:Several years ago, the researchers identified a rare strain of mouse immune to high, usually lethal doses of cancer cells. Now they have shown that not only are these mice cancer-resistant, but their immune cells are also capable of curing normal, non-resistant mice of any type of advanced cancer.
Quote:The researchers also developed a blood test that can identify the cancer-resistant mice without having to challenge them with cancer. They hope a similar test might help find and study cancer-resistance in people.
"If this were to be the same in humans we could simply identify cancer-resistant humans and to do the blood transfusion or white blood cell transfusion without even knowing the mechanism to find out whether it will work or not," says Cui, "So that's obviously on everybody's mind."
Never heard anything more about it since.

