Scientists Find 'Kill Switch' That Activates Cancer Cell Death in The Lab

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would the lab have been built with a switch that makes someone working there die from cancer? That’s awful.

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  • BatrickPateman@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do we have a KenM community yet

      We could

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same guys who built the Cube from Cube

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  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s people like you that are the reason why we should all switch to Lojban as the primary language on the internet

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    • varikvalefor@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      .i na sarcu

      Is unnecessary.

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• jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like I’ve been reading stories about scientists finding cancer “kill switches” for decades.

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  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have. Killing cancer cells is easy. It’s keeping the rest of the patient alive that’s the hard part.

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    • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      vaporizes patient

      you guise, I found a cure for all cancers

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• Hupf@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  xkcd.com/1217/

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So if I’m understanding this correctly

  Some cancer treatments work great, but they can’t breach the other barriers of tumor clumps. As such, they’re only approved for things like blood cancer.

  This new treatment acts like a breacher charge, binding to one of those outer barrier cells and triggering cell death.

  So this new treatment could allow us to use those other treatments for additional cancer types.

  Pretty cool!

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• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's cool that this could be a thing and has been demonstrated to work in vitro, but a lot of these drugs die off because they simply aren't effective (or safe to use) in vivo, so I'll hold my judgement until we see it working in live subjects.

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• Cyberbatman@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As much as I believe big pharma are unscrupulous bastards, cancer kills people. They want us nice and alive with chronic conditions that need management.

    Also if they actually cure cancer, they will use that as leverage to be cunts till the end of time.

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• Maultasche@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that the one, the T-cells are using?

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