Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Medicine of The Future 4th Week May 2021 Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/cZujrXgN--4   Today’s medical discoveries that point to future therapy. #Trojanhorse Virus Triggers #Cancer Suicide #Immunotherapy Aids #PostStroke #Rehab Enzyme Therapy Stops #Dental #Plaque #AcidSensing #Bacteria Herald Inflammatory Bowel Disease #IBD #Microneedle Patch Treats #Skin Infections 3D #Bioprinted #Multiilayer Body Parts   Biochemists at the University of Zurich and CalTech have developed a technique that uses an adenovirus vector similar to that used by the J&J and AstraZeneca CoVid vaccines to convey a self-destructive gene into cancer cells.  Called SHREAD gene therapy, the inserted gene tricks the cancer into producing toxic antibodies that kill it while leaving normal cells untouched.  Its as if cancer-killing drugs are injected into individual cancer cells.   University of Pittsburgh neurologists find that T lymphocytes known as Treg cells play a key role in post-stroke brain healing.  Even better, they use an antigen-a