April 29, 2003

Mighty cancer-proof mice

US scientists have discovered a cancer-proof mouse, according to this piece in New Scientist, and have successfully created a colony with this inherited trait. One can hope that the immune mechanism used by this mouse could translate into future cancer treatments. If so, how long before some demand that we cancer-proof the human germ line?

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