steve: we ve got amazing new developments in the fight against cancer. researchers may have discovered a miracle drug. here to explain is a member of our fox medical a team. good morning to you n good morning. steve: we re talking about a protein that has been identified as cd 47. what is it? this cd 47 is a protein that normal cells secrete in our blood. our defense mechanism understand that these are normal cells. the cancer cells, they have gotten really smart over the past many years and they are coming up with their own cd 47. so our immune system can t recognize it. so how do we treat the cancer cells? we give theme chemotherapy, we do surgery. now studies from stanford is saying, wait a second. we have this new drug that can take some of that protein away and tell the immune system, whoa, whoa, these are cancer cells, to use our own immune system to attack the cancer cells. that s really fascinating.
amendments. they will keep loading them with amendments and they re concerned about some of the amendments actually passing. as of right now it doesn t look like any of them will. it is very interesting, though, to see who votes for these amendments because a lot of these senators, democratic senators, are highly rated with the n.r.a. and they re risking that rating and they don t want to risk it. gretchen: it is my understanding the base of the bill will could have universal background checks and give more money for school security. on its face the controversial element of the base part of the bill for republicans is covering the universal background checks. i think most people are not going to come out and be against more money for school security, at least right away. steve: there is a provision that has to do with straw buyers. there are a number of republicans, including charles grassley of iowa, who supports that. yesterday when the president was in the east room of the white h
so while he would always end up knowing what was going on, sometimes he was just getting that information in the moment. he s just a beautiful performer. i think through his portrayal, people s lives are really being touched. steve: there is actual news today regarding the shroud of turin. they ve done a survey, a study, it could trial be from that period. it s exciting. steve: yeah. using infrared technology and things like that. eric: i m sorry. gretchen: talk about timing. eric: has hollywood embraced this? i think these kinds of numbers have to have gotten somebody s attention. we re just hopeful that this will be the beginning of this kind of programming. the country obviously needs it. gretchen: they said the same thing of passion of the christ and it was a huge blockbuster. we know not everybody gets cable. it s in spanish subtitles. steve: straight ahead.
take butler, when they made it to the final four in the final game against duke, many people thought they were going to win it. what did it do for butler? recruits went up dramatically. funding went up dramatically, which was the key. we have to see what happens with them tonight. they want to keep their coach in a capitalistic way. they were trying to raise money to get him eric: 13 points, take the 13, take the florida gulf coast. that s what i m going to do. steve: you re going to back them? eric: yeah. ayn rand. can t lose, can you? steve: we ll know by midnight. gretchen: time for headlines. about 7,000 patients of an oklahoma dentist are being told to get tested for h.i.v. the dentist closing his practice after unclean equipment found in his office. he was accused of not cleaning his equipment even though he knew some of his patients had infectious
the urgency for more gun control measures, the number of people who believe that there is an urgency for that has gone down in those 100 days. eric: cheap shot, though. gretchen: i m saying that s why eric: polls for additional gun control are one thing. forgotting about the 20 children and six adults that died gretchen: i m saying poll numbers we want down. the numbers are down ten points 100 days later. so that if you re a proponent of wanting more laws on the books and you see the american public is not as interested in it now, then you call a press conference like that and you try and get the ball rolling on the issue again. steve: you know what? shame on us for the fact that a crazy person took some guns that were obtained legally. it wouldn t have changed anything. in fact, rand paul made that observation last night on the hannity program. eric: we talked about his response to the president s