"Key gene 'controls disease fight'"
BBC World News. Retrieved at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8250330.stm
United Kingdom scientists have found the main gene that helps the immune system to fight off disease. The scientists say that the gene found causes stem cells to become disease fighting immune cells. They hope that this discovery is a way to increase the cells and potentially find a way to kill cancer. Along with killing cancer, it could help with new treatments for type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. These diseases are a result of the immune system not working and turning against the body, and the disease fighting cells are the damaged cells. Researchers have been studying with mice that lack the main gene that kills of diseases. These mice should be the answer that the scientists are looking for about the disease fighting cells in the immune system, with autoimmune diseases, and possible infertility in women. The latest find is that the stem cells produced in the bone marrow is actually controlled by the gene that they discovered, and their aim is to develop some type of drug that build up the disease fighting cells in the body. The disease fighting cells can be different from person to person, so it does not always work in the fight for cancer when the patient receives donated blood.
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