FASTER, PLEASE: New cancer treatment reprograms immune system. “A small medical study out today is generating a huge amount of excitement among cancer researchers. For the first time, scientists have been able to successfully target cancer cells by using cells from a patient’s own immune system. . . . Researchers engineered a patient’s own immune cells to treat a type of blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL. CLL affects nearly 15,000 men and women a year and more than 4,000 will die from it.”

We’ve seen excitement along these lines before, but I hope that this time it pans out.