GENETICALLY modified skin cells could be used to fight a deadly childhood cancer, a study suggests.
Tests on mice found they could be deployed to fight neuroblastoma.
Although rare, the disease accounts for up to ten per cent of all childhood cancers and 15 per cent of child cancer deaths.
A team at University College London's Institute of Child Health found that injecting GM cells into the tumours appeared to increase life expectancy.
source : news.scotsman.com
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