Immune Cells Stimulate Cancer Recovery

In the immunology literature, expanding the role of immune cells in defeating cancer has been part theory and part baseless speculation. Now there is a report of a full recovery:

“A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed.

The 52-year-old, who was suffering from advanced skin cancer, was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing the procedure.”

link: Cancer patient recovers after injection of immune cells

This is a break-through finding that begs for additional research for validation. The immune system research will lead back to stem cell controversies where science, politics and ideologies collide. Nevertheless, this could be a landmark finding in the use of white blood cells to combat cancer.

Catherine Forsythe
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Court Rules for Privacy of Email

Your email is private, even at work. The appeals court has ruled that, under certain circumstances, email is indeed private:

“…Under Wednesday’s ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, employers that contract an outside business to transmit text messages can’t read them unless the worker agrees.”

link: SF court protects privacy of work communications

This ruling may be appealed. As it stands, the ruling has implications on issues of security and surveillance. Businesses will protest that this removes a means of protecting proprietary information and fosters additional data breaches. On the other hand, privacy advocates will be heartened that email has some of the legal protection afforded to snail mail.

Catherine Forsythe