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Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks

Posted by kdawson on from the of-mice-and-men dept.

Anomalyst writes "Mice were implanted with cancer. The control group died as tumors metastasized. The experimental group was treated with macroketone and survived a normal lifespan. While the cancer was not cured, metastasis was significantly (over 80%) inhibited. Even after metastasis had begun and additional cancers developed, macroketone inhibited subsequent metastasis. The original article is in Nature behind a paywall."

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  1. Thanks for the information, Hemingway by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This post is a thank you for your contribution. It is heartfelt.

    Cancer is bad. Implanting cancer into mice is bad for the mice. But it is good for humans.

    Because we hate mice.

    1. Re:Thanks for the information, Hemingway by leachlife4 · · Score: 2, Funny

      But why, oh why, would you want to give the most intelligent beings on Earth (mice) cancer?

  2. Nice. by danhm · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does this mean there is no harm in smoking a celebratory cigar?

  3. Mice of the world, rejoice! by Fnkmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank God! Mice of the world can now sleep easy at night.

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  4. Re:As usual by feepness · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop talking like a seditious teabagger. The government only has our best interest at heart and we certainly aren't smart enough to make these kinds of decisions for ourselves.

  5. Re:Dear Scientists and Researchers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ok mr smart guy. I will give you my car if you can explain what this means.

    Fascin crystallized in 100mM HEPES pH8.0, 16% PEG4000, 1% propan-2-ol. Both crystals (fascin without or with macroketone) belong to space group C2. X-ray diffraction data were recorded at National Synchrotron Light Source beamlines X6A and X4C at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A partial structure was initially solved by the MR-SAD method with a selenomethionine derivative sample that diffracted to 2.1Å and a fraction of the 1DFC Protein Data Bank (PDB) file

  6. There is no paywall by wye43 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just clicked the link in the summary and I'm reading the full article right now.