Us Doctors claim that they successfully treated a skin cancer patient with cloned cells from his own immune system. A 52 year old man was suffering from melanoma which was already advanced and in stage four.
The team of Doctors under Cassian Yee of Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle removed CD4+ T-cells, were modified and expanded in the bal and five billion cells were infused into the patient. The patient received no other kind of treatment.
two months later no tumors were found during scans. 'He has been cancer free' Yee said. 'But we need to confirm the effectiveness of therapy in a larger study' he continued.
This is the first ever cancer case to be treated with cloned cells form patient's own immune system.
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Beitbart.com reports today that a dog, Marine which was trained by a Japanese centre for sniffing cancer cells in humans is being cloned in South Korea. It is reported that two clones will be made, one will remain in south korea and the other will be taken to japan for studies. The owner of the dog Yuji Satoh also confirmed the cloning. The experts from Seoul National University have taken the skin samples from Marine for the Project.
Researchers believe that cancer cells emit a scent not present in other healthy cells and it can be picked up by dogs in urine samples. If the project succeeds, they plan to clone more dogs.
I wish this project succeeds and helps us in fighting the deadly disease of cancer.
I wish all luck to the researchers in making the project a big success.
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