5/04/2011 PERMALINK
Modding your immune system to destroy cancer cells. In a new study, Dr. Marcus O. Butler, of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has found a kinder, gentler way of treating melanoma, and perhaps other cancers. Butler and his colleagues harvested immune cells from nine patients. Theses sells were then modded in their lab to program in the ability to remember cancer cells and multiplied in number. Butlers team then infused the enhanced cells back into the patients from whom they been taken, priming their immune systems to far more efficiently seek out and destroy cancer cells throughout the body.