Re: [silk] Scientists find treatment to kill every kind of cancer tumor

2014-03-28 Thread Charles Haynes
So many breathless announcements of treatments that work in vitro, or in animal studies, and are never heard from again. Wake me up after human trials. [From Science] Cancer researcher Tyler Jacks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology > in Cambridge says that although the new study is prom

[silk] Scientists find treatment to kill every kind of cancer tumor

2014-03-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with, the New York Post reported. The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune..