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Scientists have revealed that a revolutionary drug – capable of not only destroying cancer cells, but making sure that they don’tcome back – is on the brink of becoming widely available.

As The Daily Mail reported, two studies on the new treatment – T-cell immunotherapy – have delivered incredible “unprecedented” results. While onesuggested that the drug could stop cancer from returning for at least 14 years, the other saw 94% of patients (all diagnosed as terminally ill) completely free of cancer after receiving the treatment.

ResearcherDr Stanley Riddell said:

“These are patients that have failed [every other treatment].Most patients in our trial would be projected to have two to five months to live.

This is extraordinary… unprecedented in medicine to get response rates in this range in these very advanced patients.”

The treatment uses a patient’s own T-cells (the white blood cells designed to fight disease within the body) to combat their cancer. While T-cells aren’t usuallyvery good at fighting cancer, with this new treatment, doctors remove them from a patient’s body and genetically modify them, in effect training them to kill cancer once they’re re-injected.

They work in a similar way to vaccines, so remember how to kill cancer. That way, if it comes back, they’ll hunt and then quickly destroy it.

While so far, this type of treatment has only been used on “liquid cancers” – so cancers of the blood such as leukaemia – given it’s incredible success rate, doctors are now looking to develop it to be used on “solid” tumours.

It’s early days and more studies need to be done – so we’re still cautious – but this type of immunotherapy has given scientists hope that a cure for cancer might be within reach.

They believe it has huge potential, and hopefully treatments will be rolled out soon.

Image Credits: The Daily Mail, New Scientist, Lab Talk

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Van Gogh self-portrait is actually his brother

Text: AFP/Photo credit: The Van Gogh Museum

June 23, 2011 –Art researchers at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum said they have “discovered” a work by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh — long thought to have been a self-portrait — was in fact a picture of his younger brother Theo.

“According to current opinion, Vincent van Gogh never painted his brother Theo, on whom he was dependent,” the Van Gogh Museum said in a statement.

But senior researcher Louis van Tilborgh now believed the 1887 painting of a man wearing a light-colored hat and a dark blue jacket was in fact Van Gogh’s brother Theo, Vincent’s junior by five years.

“The conclusion is based on a number of obvious differences between the two brothers,” said the museum, pointing out dissimilar features including the neatness of the subject’s beard and his round-shaped ear, “something Vincent did not have.”

“The form and color of Theo’s beard, more ochre than red, is also an indication” as well as the man’s “eye-color and the style in which he was dressed supports the new insight,” the museum said.

“The portrait matches pictures of Theo,” Van Tilborgh told the Dutch news agency ANP.

Theo van Gogh died six months after his older brother shot himself in a wheat field at the age of 37 in Auvers, France, in July 1890.

The new investigation’s results are published in a 600-page catalogue, put together by Van Tilborgh and three other researchers at the museum, which houses the largest collection of Van Gogh’s paintings and letters.

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3. “Okay, Bill. Let’s not drag this on too long.”

4. “I will be your Tiny Dancer, sure.”

5. *JAZZ HANDS*

6. “You really can’t let that talk about your Mom jeans get to you, you know?”

7. “BRB.”

8. “Are you SURE you don’t have any details on Kate Middleton’s pregnancy?”

9. “Is this jacket Chanel? Wouldn’t YOU like to know.”

10. “That text wasn’t intended for me? Sure.”

11. “This is just like being late for biology class.”

12. “This must be what it’s like to watch obscene amounts of the E! network.”

13. “Wow, I SO would not pin her hair.”

14. “God this job is boring sometimes.”

15. “I’m calling this headshot ‘Mysterious Victorian.’”

16. “They’re Balenciaga.”

17. “But have you seen my jump shot?”

18. “Is this what ‘little monsters’ do???”

19. “Remind me to try this with PBR one time.”

20. “Amy Poehler just FOLLOWS me sometimes.”

21. “She usually minds her own business after the photo op.”

22. “This feels sort of like that super-spiritual yoga retreat I’ve been meaning to take for 20 years.”

23. “This staircase is so ‘rich kids of Instagram.’”

24. “The fact of the matter is, it isn’t even a CONTEST between One Direction and the Wanted.”

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27. “Your fly is unzipped.”

28. “I know how to spice up this panel talk…”

29. “…with some sweet dance moves.”

30. *Hair Toss*

Until recently, kitties at the Etobicoke shelter would sleep on the “cold, hard floor”

Not anymore, cause IKEA has just donated 10 doll beds and $300

“Our floors are easy to clean but not terribly comfortable to lay on”

“Now cats like Catsby and Frankie have beds of their own to curl up in”

IKEA doesn’t sell pet furniture as such

But some people discovered that IKEA’S doll beds are perfect size for their fur balls

Watch the video here:

5. JAZZ HANDS

30. Hair Toss