Scientists discovered a new molecule that kills even the deadliest cancer

interestingengineering.com

22 points·actually_a_dog··8 comments

Standard 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.”

The solution might be to have HN allow editorializing of paper titles. Papers are generally less clickbaity but their titles are impossible.

The 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

Removed != dead

Experiments on the undead will hopefully someday lead to experiments on the living.

Lost 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.

We already have one of those. It's called bleach.

The hard part is not killing the stuff around the cancer.

>The hard part

That's also something the new compound seems to tackle.

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