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Engineers Develop 'Killer Cells' to Destroy Cancer in Lymph Nodes

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday November 15 2015, @10:16PM   
from the designer-cells dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells - dubbed "super natural killer cells" - that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them. This breakthrough halts the onset of metastasis, according to a new Cornell study published this month in the journal Biomaterials.

"We want to see lymph node metastasis become a thing of the past," said Michael R. King, the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Biomedical Engineering and senior author of the paper, "Super Natural Killer Cells That Target Metastases in the Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes".

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• One mutation later... One mutation later... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2015, @12:45AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2015, @12:45AM (#263798)

  and we're all dead!

• Re:One mutation later... (Score: 2) by arslan on Monday November 16 2015, @01:17AM

  by arslan (3462) on Monday November 16 2015, @01:17AM (#263808)

  but living..... dum dum dum!!

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• Re:One mutation later... (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday November 16 2015, @01:52PM

  by ikanreed (3164) on Monday November 16 2015, @01:52PM (#263936) Journal

  Well, that's where cancer comes from in the first place. So at least you're buying time.

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