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Cancer-proof mouse
« on: 2003-04-29 21:29:31 » |
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Lucky discovery uncovers cancer-proof mouse
New Scientist, 28 April 2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993669
A cancer-proof mouse, which can survive being injected with any number of cancer cells, has been discovered by US scientists. The discovery of the resistant mouse could pave the way for future gene or drug therapies if the mechanism by which it fights cancer can be understood
Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina have now bred a colony of 700 cancer-proof mice from the resistant male they stumbled across while doing other experiments.
Doctors have known for many years that in rare cases, cancers can mysteriously clear up of their own accord. But this is the first time such cancer-killing ability has been shown to be genetic.
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