Scientists Find an Antibody Which Hunts and Kills Prostate
CancerS  Researchers have discovered an antibody which, when
injected into mice, will bond with prostate cancer tissue and
"initiate direct cell death" in it. If results carry over to
humans, this discovery would almost be a cure to prostate
cancer.  I say that it would almost be a cure for that
particular type of cancer, because in initial trials with mice
"F77 bonded with tissue where prostate cancer was the primary
cancer in almost all cases (97 percent) and in tissue cores
where the cancer had metastasized around 85 percent of the
time." This means that while the antibody even attacked advanced
stage cancer cells, it did not attack them all. Still, this is
fantastic news and I hope that further research lives up to the
initial optimism. [PhysOrg]  No, those aren't the happy, cancer-
free mice. They're some lab rats nude mice photographed by
jurvetson. [Thanks to Becky for correcting the critter type!]