A Immunological Cure for Cancer?

"Researchers in the US have found an antibody that turns cancerous leukaemia cells into natural killer cells - a type of white blood cell that's able to seek out and destroy tumour cells in the body. If it works in humans, it would not only reduce the number of cancer cells in a patient, but could get rid of them altogether.

So far trials in the lab have shown that the converted human leukaemia cells were able to wipe out nearly 15 percent of the cancerous leukaemia cells in just 24 hours.

But instead they stumbled across a rare human antibody that has even more potential: it can actually turn leukaemia cells into cancer killers.

The antibody in question binds to a receptor called TPO - or thrombopoietin - which is found on most acute myeloid leukaemia cells. When the researchers first exposed the leukaemia cells to the antibody, they watched as it turned many of them into harmless immune cells known as dendritic cells."

Scientists have found a way to make leukaemia cells kill each other