Cancer-killing invention also harvests stem cells.
Now not only can they take the stem cells from your blood, or the cancer cells from your blood. Now they can do both. Sounds like pretty cool technology, check it out.
Professor Michael King of the University of Rochester has invented a device that filters the blood for cancer and stem cells. When he captures cancer cells, he kills them. When he captures stem cells, he harvests them for later use in tissue engineering, bone marrow transplants and other health applications.
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January 8th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
This would actually be really interesting if they can find an effective way to do this. Much better than harvesting it from babies and other things like that….