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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same guys who built the Cube from Cube

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year 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

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I've been reading stories about scientists finding cancer "kill switches" for decades.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vaporizes patient

you guise, I found a cure for all cancers

"But uh... where's the patient?" "What patient?"

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 37 points 1 year ago
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!

[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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