‘Universal cancer vaccine’ breakthrough claimed by experts

Scientists have taken a “very positive step” towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune system attack tumours as if they were a virus, experts have said.

Writing in Nature, an international team of researchers described how they had taken pieces of cancer’s genetic RNA code, put them into tiny nanoparticles of fat and then injected the mixture into the bloodstreams of three patients in the advanced stages of the disease.

The patients’ immune systems responded by producing “killer” T-cells designed to attack cancer.

“However, more research is needed in a larger number of people with different cancer types and over longer periods of time before we could say we have discovered a ‘universal cancer vaccine’. But this research is a very positive step forwards towards this global goal,” she said.

Of course it could be the fat that was injected too… it is early days still but it does sound promising so let’s hope lots of effort goes into this further research.

Scientists believe they have found a way to make a universal cancer vaccine

Researchers have found a way to persuade the body’s immune system to attack tumours – and it is largely free from side effects

Scientists have long speculated that the ancient Egyptians used metal from meteorites to make iron objects. Now an analysis of a dagger found in Tutankhamun’s tomb has given us strong evidence that this was the case – and that the Egyptians knew the iron…

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Research has confirmed a knife found in the ancient Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb was made with metal from the heavens.

Primates are and always have been my favorite animals, as a young girl I often dreamed of one day visiting the Congo to work towards learning about and preserving such amazing creatures. It seriously saddens me that we lost one in such an unfortunate event. However I do believe that the keepers made the only choice they could to save a tiny human beings life. Unlike what we see in the movies tranquilizers aren’t immediate and the bigger the animal the more likely you are for that animal to freak out for a while before actually be garnered unconscious. If they had chosen to go the route of a tranquilizer the little boy would likely have been gravely injured or worse killed. It was a sad choice, but it was the only choice they could have made.

The mother shouldn’t be hung out to dry either, toddler’s can get away very quickly and if they don’t want to be grabbed (and this one didn’t a few people tried to grab him before he fell in) they can be very slippery. The whole incident was a horrible accident and people really shouldn’t be witch hunting.