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Cancer cure closer…

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Immunocore, a small British company,  has developed a way of  harnessing the  power of the immune system’s natural-born killer cells: the T-cells of the blood which nature has designed over millions of years of evolution to seek out and kill invading pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria.

T-cells are not nearly as good at finding and killing cancer cells, but Immunocore may have found a way around this so that cancer patients in future are able to fend off their disease with their own immune defenses.   In short, the company may have found a means to afford everyone the protection some people seem to have naturally.

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July 14, 2013 at 11:47 pm

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