Linda in Nova Scotia
The rocks behind her should be in Norway
Or maybe Auld Scotland
Here is another reason to patronize Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos has made an unimaginable amount of
money selling first books – then nearly everything, on line. Unlike some of his fellow billionaires, Jeff
has not used his wealth to develop space travel, buy professional sports teams,
or even run for president. Instead, like
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet he has chosen to use his wealth to benefit the
rest of us. Fred Hutch has just announced
the emergence of a clinic devoted to T-cell therapy, named after and paid for
by the Bezos family. Here is the Hutch news
release:
I have written about immunotherapy before (24 times to be
exact), and T-cells also should be an old friend (94 times!). Briefly, T-cell immunotherapy as usually
practiced today consists of extracting white blood cells from the patient, isolating those T-cells most inimical to the particular cancer cells in question, modifying these
T-cells so as to encourage them to bind with receptors on the cancer cells’
exterior wall, growing billions of them – and injecting them back into the
patient. Simple, huh? Often this works; sometimes, so far, it doesn’t.
This is an ultra-hot topic in cancer therapy. Even the Moonshooters agree. More on T-cell immunotherapy:
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/research/car-t-cells
T-cell immunology has been used for melanova for some time.
T-cell immunology has been used for melanova for some time.
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