Cat Poo Fighting Cancer?

[packman]

Are you telling me that cats may actually have something to contribute to the survival of the human race beyond their cuteness?

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Published laboratory studies from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth labs have tested the cps vaccine (derived from cat feces) in extremely aggressive lethal mouse models of melanoma or ovarian cancer and found unprecedented high rates of cancer survival.

"Cps stimulates amazingly effective immunotherapy against cancers, superior to anything seen before," said Bzik. "The ability of cps to communicate in different and unique ways with the cancer and special cells of the immune system breaks the control that cancer has leveraged over the immune system"

I SWEAR TO GOD I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!!!



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140715095515.htm

[Xyzse]

1. Woah... Some reason it just reminds me of South Park.

Well, that's good then.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I wonder what made them think of researching cat poo in the first place?

[Xyzse]

3. The best coffee comes from cat feces apparently.

No idea how that came about.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Not cats, actually, but palm civets, which are in the weasel family.

Palm civets eat coffee berries (an actual cat wouldn't eat berries). The fruit is digested and the beans go through the civets' digestive system (and some lucky person gets to dig through the civet poo to find the beans), but supposedly this gives the coffee its special flavor.

[Xyzse]

5. Thanks for the clarification.

Either way... I have no idea how the hell they came up with that.

[NightWatcher]

6. My immune system is so shot to shit that I shouldn't scoop the stuff

And now they say it might cure some shit?

Aint life hilarious?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Hmmm...my dog must be a hell of a lot smarter than I thought. n/t

[NV Whino]

8. I don't find that surprising

Nothing survives cat poo.

[3catwoman3]

11. Maybe cat pee has some potential too.

Several years ago, I spent months trying to figure out which of our cats was peeing in the laundry room, because it always smelled terrible in there. Moved everything around, used the blacklight - nothing. It turned out it was our sons' soccer shoes. Well worn, synthetic material soccer shoes smell EXACTLY like cat pee.

[hamsterjill]

9. I'm gonna be rich, I tell you! Rich!!!

Because I have tons of this "stuff" from my brood!!! LOL

[3catwoman3]

10. The next time myhusband grumbles because...

...we have 5, I will tell him we may be sitting on a goldmine.