Jul

23

Tobacco could help treat cancer

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As per latest research by US researchers that a personalized vaccine made using tobacco plants — normally associated with causing cancer rather than helping cure it — could aid people with lymphoma in fighting the disease.

The treatment, which would vaccinate cancer patients against their own tumor cells, is made using a new approach that turns genetically engineered tobacco plants into personalized vaccine factories.

Dr. Ron Levy said, “This is the first time a plant has been used for making a protein to inject into a person,”

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