Elizabeth Wayne : We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer (transcript)
Summary
Our immune system has a natural ability to provide resistance to infection and toxins in our bodies.
However, we always use chemotherapy. It's so non-specific. It kills the cancer cells though it also kills the rest of your body. Some drugs ended up accumulating in the other organs or passing through your urine and leave your body.
The speaker created a new system to be able to directly deliver drugs to your cancer cells by using human design naturally.
She discovered that a nanoparticle made of lipids can naturally deliver special molecules which act as a glue to bind the nanoparticle to the immune cells, and only killing cancer cells without killing normal cells. By only using injection, drugs can go to the right places of the body.
It's going to be used not only for cancer but for all diseases. It can stop the drugs from killing the rest of your body.
Words in this story
resistance /noun/ the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument. opposition to, hostility to, refusal to accept
resilience /noun/ the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.
urine /u・rine/jˈʊ(ə)rɪn/ piss, pissing
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