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Micromet: A New Approach to Cancer Treatment
Simon: micromet is a company that has been acquired by Genentech. The acquisition was made to help with the treatment of acute lintoblastic leukemia cells. Simon says they engineer a protein which on one end binds the cancer cell and at the other end it ties up an immune system cell. He says this harnesses the body's own immune cells and gets them to hone in on these cancer cells and eliminate them.