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Topic: Possible cure for many cancers

Scarne Title: Capo di Scientifico Posts: 27,710 Registered: Jul 23, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 22,798 User ID: 272,061	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/one-drug-to-shrink-all-tumors.html 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. -----signature----- E Pluribus Unum
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi Posts: 25,948 Registered: Mar 25, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 22,707 User ID: 661,552	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	-----signature----- "Take the cheese to sickbay!"
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Akza Posts: 10,121 Registered: Sep 8, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 9,783 User ID: 713,614	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	possible cancer-ending breakthrough #204... step on up. -----signature----- ·»Teydis ¤ Igraine«· ·»»·â€œ ¤Herra¤ â€œ·««· http://www.backloggery.com/teylix
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Coriolus Title: Outpost Ice Mexican Posts: 22,046 Registered: May 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 21,595 User ID: 679,996	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	wow! Will the pharma industry allow this to happen though.. dum dum dummmm.. -----signature----- A thousand sheep are louder than one man. As long as the Survivor-watching sheep outnumber the thinkers, nothing will change. - BD
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GrilledCheez Title: The Lord's Balls Posts: 37,872 Registered: Mar 22, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 26,537 User ID: 1,125,840	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	Coriolus posted: dum dum dummmm.. you should use that for your new signature. -----signature----- Another word for expensive is successful.
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Coriolus Title: Outpost Ice Mexican Posts: 22,046 Registered: May 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 21,595 User ID: 679,996	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	GrilledCheez posted: Coriolus posted: dum dum dummmm.. you should use that for your new signature. ha! thx. -----signature----- A thousand sheep are louder than one man. As long as the Survivor-watching sheep outnumber the thinkers, nothing will change. - BD
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illmyrin Posts: 16,612 Registered: Dec 25, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 10,815 User ID: 574,488	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	Eliminate the host, eliminate the cancer. -----signature----- Hold up your opinions and I'll tell you which one is my favorit.
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Eager_Igraine Posts: 20,126 Registered: Nov 21, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 19,548 User ID: 740,268	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	Scarne posted: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/one-drug-to-shrink-all-tumors.html 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. -----signature----- I radiate more heat than light. I know what you're trying to do but you're just sailing another failboat over the falls. - imaloon1
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paulg_68 Posts: 30,961 Registered: Jul 27, '09 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 30,669 User ID: 1,364,918	Subject: Possible cure for many cancers
	ZigmundZag posted: -----signature----- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
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