Word: limpet
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Other companies are focused on boosting the immune system with vaccines that can direct it to target cancer cells. A new vaccine developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering binds a protein from a mollusk called a limpet to seven different types of sugars and a protein fragment found only on cancer cells. The vaccine is then mixed with saponin, a soaplike derivative from a South American tree. This witch's brew serves to annoy the immune system, revving it up enough to attack cancer cells that are carrying the same sugars and protein fragment...
Other companies are focused on boosting the immune system with vaccines that can direct it to target cancer cells. A vaccine developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering binds a protein from a limpet to seven different types of sugars and a protein fragment found only on cancer cells, and saponin, a soap-like derivative from a South American tree. This witch’s brew serves to annoy the immune system, revving it up enough to attack cancer cells that are carrying the same sugars and protein fragment...
...species, to which one is connected by common evolution. We dabble in biotechnology as crude approximations of nature. We are guilt-ridden about what we eat from time to time. We take to nature and resist it, though we recognize that the life of the Rockies and the limpet is our life too and that resistance menaces survival...