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Biotech / Medical : Stressgen (VSE: SSB) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: don jackson who wrote (53)	6/9/1998 8:23:00 PM
From: Heat Shock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 236

To all: the TV program "at Discover.ca" just had a piece about Stress Proteins which featured Stressgen. The piece occurred in the middle of the hour-long program from 7:30 to about 7:36. They were talking about immunotherapy fighting cancer. The piece was very well done- explaining in a simple way what stress proteins are and how they can be used against cancer. Stressgen's director of research, Lee Mizzen, was the only interviewee. He was in a lab coat in a lab and there were various science/lab shots throughout. Mizzen used the image of a "red flag" to convey the idea that stress proteins can make cancer cells more visible to the immune system. He explained that Stressgen can take a known cancer antigen and combine it with a stress protein to effect the "red flagging" of cancer cells, which caused them to be killed by the immune system. He pointed out that if you had a cancer whose antigens were not known, you could still fight it with stress proteins by delivering the dna for the stress protein into the cancer cell, which then made the "red flags" which highlighted the cancer cells to the immune system. I have not tried it, but you can apparently view these programs with RealVideo at this link exn.ca@discovery.ca/ Heat.