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Brit Scientists Invent ‘Sugar Bomb’ Which Destroys Greedy Cancer Cells in Seconds
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 31 May 2021 | Nick McDermott, Fiona MacRae

Posted on 05/30/2021 11:23:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

BRIT scientists have invented a “sugar bomb” which destroys greedy cancer cells in seconds.

Tumours need food in order to spread so gobble up the sweet “bomb” which contains a drug.

Brit scientists invent 'sugar bomb' which destroys greedy A light shone on those cancer cells detonates the “explosive”, known as SeNBD.

It works because cancers grow fast and need more food than healthy cells, which are not harmed by the drug.

Scientists hope the sugar treatment will boost survival and spare patients damaging chemotherapy.

So far, it has only been used on glioblastoma, the most common brain cancer. In tests, it destroyed the tumour sugar-craving cells in seconds.

The method is being adapted to fight cancers that prefer fat or protein, Nature Communications reported.

Breast, prostate and lung cancers could be combated by the approach.

Researcher Sam Benson, of Edinburgh University, said of the sugar bomb technique: “The drug absorbs the energy from the light.

“It uses the energy to weaponise the oxygen in the cells, killing them from within.”

The Brain Tumour Charity said the method could be an “innovative new way to target aggressive cancer cells while sparing healthy cells”.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: cancer; chemo; edinburghuniversity; glioblastoma; sambenson; science; scotland; scotlandyet; senbd; sugar; sugarbomb; wboopi
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1 posted on 05/30/2021 11:23:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Wow! It would be a blessing to the world to have this treatment be safe and effective. I wonder about human trials...the article is a bit sparse on details.


2 posted on 05/30/2021 11:34:06 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: nickcarraway

bookmark


3 posted on 05/31/2021 12:03:49 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: nickcarraway

What a neat idea!


4 posted on 05/31/2021 12:11:33 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: nickcarraway

How long will we have to wait for the “sugar bomb” cancer treatment?

So many promising studies sound so hopeful. Then we never hear about them again.


5 posted on 05/31/2021 12:17:29 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

True.


6 posted on 05/31/2021 12:25:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Tired of Taxes; metmom

maybe the FDA could approve it as an “emergency treatment” like the “vaccines”.

/I crack me up


7 posted on 05/31/2021 12:27:02 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: nickcarraway

I rigorously adhere to the FR tradition of only reading the headlines, but not the story. So, chocolate lava cake ala mode cures cancer, huh? I always knew that stuff was health food.


8 posted on 05/31/2021 12:56:27 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe a lifesaving treatment, let’s pray it is.


9 posted on 05/31/2021 1:06:16 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: nickcarraway

Could not find “seNBD” result in “search” on Nature Communication website. Or “Sugar bomb”
The description rendered on the Sun site reads as a non scientific description IMHO.
The only reference to sugar bomb and cancer on google search is to the sun article.
Anybody have a better reference?


10 posted on 05/31/2021 1:22:33 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

Bump for later


11 posted on 05/31/2021 1:34:30 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: nickcarraway

Praise God!


12 posted on 05/31/2021 1:39:16 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Salamander

I had the same thought.

/ (Then I laughed, too.)


13 posted on 05/31/2021 1:43:38 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

GMTA.

/sarcastic, cynically jaded minds, too

;)


14 posted on 05/31/2021 1:46:32 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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4l8tr


15 posted on 05/31/2021 2:29:30 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: nickcarraway

I remember a former President being ridiculed for musing about using light to cure disease in the body


16 posted on 05/31/2021 3:01:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: noiseman
No, I think it's a cereal.


17 posted on 05/31/2021 3:15:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Larry, thanks. I’m going to have to get one of those Captain Cosmos Decoder Rings so I can discern the article.


18 posted on 05/31/2021 3:56:57 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: noiseman

I read the story and it works with l8ght, so do they cut you open or make you swallow a special flashlight for this to work?


19 posted on 05/31/2021 3:59:18 AM PDT by Ikeon (Being smart is now called rude and insensitive because it offends stupid people)
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To: nickcarraway

What a blessing!


20 posted on 05/31/2021 4:07:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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