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Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules
(www.sciencealert.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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99% of non-cancerous cells were also destroyed.
I don't get this comment at all. Wat?
Killing cancer cells is easy enough, the hard part is only killing cancerous cells
He's saying it destroys all cells, cancerous and non-cancerous. Don't know if it's true, haven't read the article.
Obviously it's not true hence I don't get it. The holy grail is to destroy just cancerous cells, it's easy to destroy all. 🤷♂️
The article makes no mention to the molecules only working on cancer cells. The molecules, according to the article, attach to cell membranes, and then the molecules are jiggled to blow up the cells. That process doesn't mention an ability to differentiate between cancer and non-cancer cells. The technique was tried on a culture growth, where a hammer would have the same results. It was also tried on mice, where half were left cancer-free, but little is said about the process, the specifics of the results, or what happened to the other half of mice.
We all get the goal of cancer research, OP is just doubtful that this achieves it, as am I, as well as anyone who's read good news about eradicating cancer in the past few decades. Most are duds or go nowhere even if initially promising, so...