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Re: Embryonic stem cells make cancer-fighting cells
Irish: cancer is pritty much any group of cells that malfunctions. Benign cancer is just flesh that does nothing, where other types multiply to the point where they interfear with homeostasis.
There is a wide variaty of cancers, easilly as many as types of tissu in the body. The problem isn't killing the cancer, it's keeping the healthy cells alive while you do it.
to Bio: From what I can tell, the stem cell approach deals mainly with creating a more primal immune-responce to whatever chemical identifiers there are in the particular cancer so it can be targeted.These so called 'natural killer' cells allready exist in our bodies, but whatever cancer has managed to form in the body isn't viewed by the immune system as a problem.
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Last edited by GAHD; 10-16-2005 at 06:55 AM..
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