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[–] Carighan 57 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 8 points 11 months ago

Same guys who built the Cube from Cube

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So if I'm understanding this correctly

Some cancer treatments work great, but they can't breach the outer 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 the tumour's outer barrier cells and triggering cell death, thus creating an access point.

So this new treatment could allow us to use those other treatments for additional cancer types since now they can get into the tumor clumps?

Pretty cool!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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