Cancer cure closer…

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.

T cell breakthrough…

This is  exciting news  for leukemia patients that T cells have been infected with a virus which kills cancer cells.   The hope is that the therapy can be expanded to cover other types of cancer.