Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/cnN2nkBlDec Short Shorts are cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic, but worth knowing about now. Spiders may help us cure cancer.  The intracellular protein p53 is one natural defense against cancer-triggering mutations.  Problem is that p53 is in short supply since cells naturally make very little of it and it tends to be unstable.  That’s where our creepy spider friends come in.  Tumor biologists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute find that a small section of synthetic spider silk protein attached to p53 before reintroducing it into cells stabilizes the p53 enhancing its ability to prevent cancer-causing mutations.  Could be the basis for a new treatment.     https://www.cell.com/structure/fulltext/S0969-2126(22)00049-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0969212622000491%3Fshowall%3Dtrue     A new type of CoVid vaccine repurposes red blood cells to carry the viral spike proteins that trigger a effective im