Friday Morning Open Thread

Posted on June 21, 2013 by ScottC

Brent’s away, so no morning report.

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    lmsinca, on June 21, 2013 at 6:34 am said:

    Good one McWing. Everyone else here is already up and moving before I even hit the start button on the coffee maker or get my tea pot warmed up, and I get up early.

    This is a great story to begin a Friday. Fighting fire with fire researchers in a small clinical trial were able to send 9 out of 12 leukemia patients into remission using a modified HIV virus.

    Researchers at Penn had developed a technique to modify the patients’ own T-cells to turn them into what they called “serial killer” cells. These serial killer T-cells could each kill approximately 1000 tumor cells that had the CD-19 antigen on them. This antigen is found on the malignant lymphocytes in these leukemia patients.

    To produce the serial killers, researchers needed to modify the patients’ own T-cells by genetically engineering them to produce an antibody-like protein that would sic them on the tumor cells. To do that, the researchers needed to get at the T-cells’ genes. They found that the best way to get this process to work was to use HIV.

    http://americablog.com/2013/06/hiv-being-used-to-cure-cancer-leukemia.html

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