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By Dhondy at 07/10/2008 - 06:20
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Put some money on this October's Nobel laureate, folks. I think the prize has just been won by Cassian Yee from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle.
Before I tell you what Yee and his team have achieved, take a look at why cancer of most sorts is so difficult to treat. Cancer cells are innovative, believe it or not. They mutate all the time, develop novel ways to evade anti-cancer drugs, and emerge with cells that are more robust, and multiply and spread easily. Essentially, it's like a parasite living inside the body that will, in due course, destroy its host.
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