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    Gift, das heilt: Tödliches Gallium tötet „gierige“ Krebszellen mit 99-prozentiger Genauigkeit


    Gift, das heilt: Tödliches Gallium tötet „gierige“ Krebszellen mit 99-prozentiger Genauigkeit

    https://interestingengineering.com/health/gallium-kills-cancer-call-accuratel

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    1. Distinct-Respect-274 on

      Talk about a metal performance! Gallium really ‘killing it’ in the cancer cell mosh pit. Who knew the periodic table could be so lethal…and lifesaving!

    2. beast_of_production on

      > In laboratory tests, 99% of osteosarcoma (bone cancer) cells were killed off without destroying non-cancerous normal human bone cells. 

      The cancer cells think gallium is tasty, so they eat it?

    3. Bee-Aromatic on

      Sounds like it operates on the same premise that chemotherapy already does: cancerous tumors tend to be resource hogs, so if you flood your body with poison, they pick up more of it than the rest of your tissues and hopefully die before you do. Interesting that the surrounding tissues didn’t soak up enough to suffer *any* damage (that they detected). I can’t help but wonder if this is because there’s a sharp increase in toxicity as gallium levels increase, that is a little bit is no big deal but a touch more is deadly, or if there’s some mechanism in cancer cells that’s broken/disabled or whatever that lets them absorb gallium where normal cells just don’t do it.

      I guess we’ll have to see where they take this.

    4. belial123456 on

      It’s the altruistic and charitable cells you’ve got to be careful about.

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