Geek of the Week: Dr. Rebecca Gardner is reprogramming blood cells to kill cancer

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Dr. Rebecca Gardner and her colleagues at Seattle Children’s Research Institute are altering the body’s infection-fighting blood cells to attack cancer in the same way those cells fight viruses. The researchers take a patient’s blood, reprogram the T-cells, and infuse the blood back into the body to find and destroy cancer. How’s that for a… Read More…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center wins $8.2M grant to study link between obesity and cancer

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The American Cancer Society estimates that about 30 percent of cancer deaths are tied to poor nutrition, lack of exercise and obesity. Now, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has won $8.2 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a coordinating hub to study the problem. The program will be led… Read More…