Newly-developed white blood cells to destroy cancer cells in lymph nodes

Biomedical engineers from Cornell University have developed specialized white blood cells that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes and destroy them. This is the only purpose of the newly-developed super natural killer cells. This great breakthrough is published in the journal Biomaterials. The lymph nodes for the tumor play an important role in advancing metastasis through the body. During the research, the engineers killed the cancerous tumor cells within days by injecting liposomes armed with TRAIL that attach to "natural killer" cells. It's a type of white blood cell resides in the lymph nodes. These natural killer cells find the cancerous cells and induce apoptosis, where the cancer cells self-destruct and disintegrate, thus preventing the lymphatic spread of cancer any further. In their research, they used nanoparticles - the liposomes they have created with TRAIL protein, and attach them to natural killer cells to create the super natural killer cells and then lymph node metastases in mice were eliminated, according to Michael R. King, the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Biomedical Engineering and senior author of the paper. King and other biomedical engineers showed their hope that lymph node metastasis become a thing of the past. Read more as you like:http://www.cusabio.com/Clone/ndhI-1089562.html