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Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered
New submitter _prime writes "Until recently the mechanism by which cells make proteins in low-oxygen environments has been unknown. As published in Nature (paywall) this week, the discovery of the mechanism by an Ottawa-based team of researchers potentially means it could be 'very easy to kill cancer cells' without harming normal cells because cancer cells leverage the same low-oxygen protein synthesis mechanism even in the presence of normal oxygen levels."
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There will never be an available cure for cancer as long as the "health care" industry is making such huge profits to treat it.
If you can make an incredibly expensive vaccine, you might displace this effect with time.
This comment is US-centric. It may be that the rest of the world gets the cancer cure but it will be illegal in the US. Or only available to the few who can afford it.