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

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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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday November 16 2015, @01:12AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday November 16 2015, @01:12AM (#263807)

    I just had a lymph node cut out of my neck with cancerous cells in it, so I guess I'm at risk for it happening again. I hope they get this treatment perfected soon.

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday November 16 2015, @01:42AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 16 2015, @01:42AM (#263819)
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