61. Researchers found that all eight patients had increased levels of immune cells that specifically fight off HIV. 62. Researchers theorize that giving people insulin capsules will alter the balance between protective and destructive immune cells and halt the destructive process. 63. Self-destructive immune cells are thus weeded out. 64. Scientists are trying to train the immune cells that ward off normal infections in the body to recognize and attack dividing cancer cells. 65. Similar procedures could regenerate skin for burn patients, immune cells for people with HIV, retinal cells for blind people or muscle cells to combat muscular dystrophy. 66. Since then, he reports, his immune cells have doubled no longer traceable in his blood. 67. Should we give Christy chemotherapy to kill her immune cells, even though her tumor was benign? 68. Since primordial stem cells develop into all types of cells, including immune cells, the strategy could instruct the recipient to better accept the transplant. 69. Standard AIDS drugs result in only modest and temporary boosts of key immune cells attacked by HIV. |