Cells Grown By Japanese Researchers Kills Cancer

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In a promising start to a brand new year, researchers at the University of Tokyo and the Riken Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology may have found a possible cure for some of the worst diseases plaguing mankind, including HIV and cancer.

Working as a team, researchers from both institutions were able to extract live T-cells, the vital powerhouses of the human immune system, from patients, specifically targeting specialized cytotoxic T-cells which have the ability to recognize and attack signs of infection. One donor suffered from skin cancer; another HIV.

Researchers then converted the T-cells back to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) by exposing them to a group of compounds called the “Yamanaka factors,” in part so they could study the stem cells’ differentiation processes. Then the team reconverted the stem cells back into specialized disease-fighters, the T-cells known as “killer T-cells”or “killer T lymphocytes.” Among other critical findings, researchers discovered that the skin-cancer fighting T-cells remained capable of producing the crucial anti-tumor compound interferon

Why take the trouble to convert cells to a pluripotent stage, if only to reconvert them to their original state? Because stem cells can be grown at a much faster pace in a laboratory than in the human body, enabling researchers to create killer T lymphocytes that are—at least theoretically—ready for therapeutic human injection.

http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/cells-grown-by-japanese-researchers-kills-cancer_12861.aspx#.UOg54HewV8E

[Berlum]

1. Bravo

[siligut]

2. Stem cell research offers so much hope

More T cells is like bringing in the Navy Seals to attack your cancer growth.

[farminator3000]

3. cool, but a little scary sounding- check this out- Dr. Johanna Budwig, cancer pioneer...

http://healthwyze.org/index.php/component/content/article/190-cancer-revisited-the-industry-suppressed-budwig-regimine-or-how-to-cure-cancer-with-cottage-cheese.html

In other words, we're here to teach you how to fish; not provide you with fish. Until recently, we figured that what we had written in the magazine was enough. We believed that it was quite comprehensive, and that we did not need to touch the topic again for a very long time. Judging from reader input, perhaps we were wrong. Perhaps it was not enough. We apologize.

"I have the answer to cancer, but American doctors won't listen. They come here and observe my methods and are impressed. Then they want to make a special deal so they can take it home and make a lot of money. I won't do it, so I'm blackballed in every country."

-- Dr. Johanna Budwig

Meet Dr. Johanna Budwig. She left us in 2003, at the ripe age of 95, but she looked like she was in her 70's. She was nominated six times for the Nobel Prize for medicine, which means that it would be wise to take her health work seriously. We call her a saint, but doctors-in-the-know thought of her as a god. Did we mention that she cured cancer -- not treated -- but cured it in "terminally ill" patients; even patients which the establishment had surrendered to fate, claimed were "untreatable", and gave a death sentence to?

[hootinholler]

4. I hope this has the promise it shows. n/t

[Shankapotomus]

5. K&R'ed nt

[Drew Richards]

6. Funded by the umbrella corporation.

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7. "Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?" - NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?pagewanted=all

After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor — man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again. . . .”