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posted June 25, 2007 at 06:16 pm

A company called Lifeforce has received FDA approval to store white blood cells for people as a "back-up copy of your immune system". The idea is that those pre-diseased cells could be reproduced in the lab and infused back into your body when needed to fight off infection or deal with the aftermath of chemotherapy.

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