Wasp's venom kills cancer cells without harming normal cells

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23 points·joeyespo··8 comments

Article is written in 2018 about research publicized more than three years ago (https://www.google.com/search?q=Polybia+paulista+mp1&tbm=nws). On top of that, this article is entirely unsourced.

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Here's a more recent bit of research around why MP1 might not kill blood cells: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5437523_Selectivity...

A BBC write-up about the oncolytic findings in the Cell publication: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34115112

And the original Cell publication documenting the observed relationship between the MP1 peptide and the cell membrane itself: https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(15)00768-7

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dang, if I can suggest swapping out articles, I'd vouch for either the BBC write-up or the Cell publication above, both published in 2015

No link to the study, no information about which cancer cells or which type of cancer this works on. A better article can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34115112

Wow.. was this article even proofread? There's an error in almost every paragraph

I'd like to join the chorus of complaints about this article.

I haven't read it, but I have a good excuse: My provider's virus filter is warning me not to open it.

It's almost amazing how many problems this page seems to have.

Every paragraph is exactly one sentence. What a weird layout.

The number of ads is heinous too. And the study is from June 2017, over a year old.. Can one of the HN mods please replace the link with the actual study?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28274844/

What is

Wrong with

The formatting!!?

2017 work:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28274844/

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