Sorry for the double dip today but this looks too promising to pass up:
The researchers have bred a large colony of the cancer-resistant mice, all from one mouse they discovered in 1999.
In previous studies the team showed that the resistant mice can survive very large doses – up to 3 billion cells – of any kind of cancer. This resistance is passed on genetically in a "perfect Mendelian single dominant gene pattern," says Cui, since the trait is transmitted to roughly half of each resistant-mouse's offspring. On this basis the scientists believe the resistance mutation must be in a single gene.
Now that's a good development. But that's not all! The article says that injecting the white blood cells from a resistant mouse into non-resistant mice cures them too!
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