We all know by now that breast milk is liquid gold to babies and provides growing infants with the perfectly tailored nutrition. But now some Swedish scientists have found that the benefits don’t end there, after accidentally discovering that breast milk contains a substance that kills tumour cells. It was Professor Catharina Svanborg, an immunologist at […]
9 years ago
A revolutionary new cancer treatment that effectively trains the human body’s immune system to hunt down and destroy tumours has shown “extraordinary” results in clinical trials. The treatment is centred on CARs-modified T-cells (immune cells that are removed from the patient, tagged as chimeric antigen receptors or Cars, which target cancer, and infused back into the […]
10 years ago
Doctors working on a malaria vaccine for pregnant women have stumbled upon a protein that could potentially cure nine out of ten cancers. While looking into why pregnant women are particularly susceptible to malaria, the teams discovered that the mosquito-borne parasite produces a protein called “VAR2CSA”, which binds to a particular type of sugar molecule found […]
11 years ago