Remarkable stories as of late.

First we have the story coming out of the Fred Hutchinson Center regarding the curing of advanced skin cancer by injecting the patient with his own cloned white blood cells (previously reported on the rivet: here).

Now we have research being conducted at Wake Forest University wherein doctors are transfusing a specific type of white blood cell from select donors into patients.  They are just beginning early human trials but the test has returned great results in lab mice.

A similar treatment using white blood cells from cancer-resistant mice has previously been highly successful, curing 100 percent of lab mice afflicted with advanced malignancies.

Link here.

In our long march to longer life change will appear to come slowly until all of a sudden it will appear that we are on the other side of the cure.  Then we, being the simple humans that we are, will find it unremarkable and move on as if it has always been thus.

Will curing cancer be the same as all the rest of accelerating change around us?