NewScientist is reporting on modified stem cells that produce a cancer-killing chemical that can find and destroy brain tumors. The standard procedure for dealing with brain tumors is surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.

 

The mice injected with the special stem cells lived significantly longer than mice left untreated. One third even developed long term immunity to brain tumors.

 

"Three months after the first tumours were implanted in the surviving mice, the team injected fresh cancerous cells into their brains. All mice remained healthy 120 days later, indicating they had long-term immunity to glioma. Five controls injected simultaneously with the cancerous cells died within 30 days."

 

Journal reference: Cancer Research (vol 62, p 5657)

Watch our generation that grew up in front of computer monitors all get brain tumors at some point in life.

Eye tumours from the monitor and a really big one coming out of one ear from the cooked tissue our mobiles leave behind.

 

Ewww. Funny but gross.