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Scientists discovered a new molecule that kills even the deadliest cancer
- bbgxy67sk028vn 4y agoLost a close friend to brain cancer, and I'm ever hopeful to see cancer eradicated within my lifetime. This news leaves me feeling incredibly hopeful.
- cwillu 4y agoStandard headline-and-introductory-paragraph bait and switch: “remember that breakthrough in human trials? Well, we've extended it to other forms of cancer… [3 paragraphs later] in mice.”
- balsam 4y agoThe solution might be to have HN allow editorializing of paper titles. Papers are generally less clickbaity but their titles are impossible.
- qw 4y agoThe article says it also works on dead human tissue. I don't know the significance of this, but it has been tested on something other than mice. I guess we can't make any conclusions on the adverse effects on a living human body, but it seems promising to me (not a scientist) From the article: > The molecule also killed cancer cells in human tissue that were gathered from patients who had their tumors removed
- FranksTV 4y agoWe already have one of those. It's called bleach. The hard part is not killing the stuff around the cancer.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>The hard part That's also something the new compound seems to tackle.