Good and Evil: A Cancer Vaccine from Tobacco Plants


	Good and Evil: A Cancer Vaccine from Tobacco Plants

suckmyclip

7-22-2008 6:01 PM

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7-24-2008 8:36 AM

ptw02118

figures, you put this clip up 2 days ago and Mohir/Wildcat/Silweaver is just getting around to posting the same thing. They're too damn lazy to search and of course they have 9 pops to your 1.

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<P class="caption" id="articleImgCap"><STRONG>CANCER VACCINE?:</STRONG> Researchers used tobacco plants as manufacturing facilities to make protein to combat cancer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cancer-vaccine-tobacco-plants"><DIV>  Researchers report in the <A href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0803636105"><EM>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA</EM></A> that the experimental vaccine triggered the immune systems of 11 of 16 volunteers (with so-called follicular <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-magic-of-microarrays">B-cell lymphoma</A>) to attack their tumors without any apparent dangerous side effects.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cancer-vaccine-tobacco-plants"><DIV>  "This may not be a replacement for chemotherapies, but a supplement for them," Levy says. "A technology that is fast, like this one, is more amenable to a watchful waiting approach than a technology that is slow to produce."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cancer-vaccine-tobacco-plants">All of the patients also received chemotherapy, so researchers cannot be certain what role, if any, the <A href="http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=vaccines">vaccines</A> played. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8D2ABC56-F49F-46D3-96DA-A1F79A2B64A6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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