Posted on 12/28/2023 9:38:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Scientists have discovered a new way to destroy cancer cells. Stimulating aminocyanine molecules with near-infrared light caused them to vibrate in sync, enough to break apart the membranes of cancer cells.
Aminocyanine molecules are already used in bioimaging as synthetic dyes. Commonly used in low doses to detect cancer, they stay stable in water and are very good at attaching themselves to the outside of cells.
How the vibration mechanism works. (Ciceron Ayala-Orozco et al., Nature Chemistry, 2023)
The research team from Rice University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas, says the new approach is a marked improvement over another kind of cancer-killing molecular machine previously developed, called Feringa-type motors, which could also break the structures of problematic cells.
"It is a whole new generation of molecular machines that we call molecular jackhammers," says chemist James Tour from Rice University.
"They are more than one million times faster in their mechanical motion than the former Feringa-type motors, and they can be activated with near-infrared light rather than visible light."
The use of near-infrared light is important because it enables scientists to get deeper into the body. Cancer in bones and organs could potentially be treated without needing surgery to get to the cancer growth.
In tests on cultured, lab-grown cancer cells, the molecular jackhammer method scored a 99 percent hit rate at destroying the cells. The approach was also tested on mice with melanoma tumors, and half the animals became cancer-free.
The structure and chemical properties of aminocyanine molecules mean they stay in sync with the right stimulus – such as near-infrared light. When in motion, the electrons inside the molecules form what's known as plasmons, collectively vibrating entities that drive movement across the whole of the molecule.
"What needs to be highlighted is that we've discovered another explanation for how these molecules can work," says chemist Ciceron Ayala-Orozco from Rice University.
"This is the first time a molecular plasmon is utilized in this way to excite the whole molecule and to actually produce mechanical action used to achieve a particular goal – in this case, tearing apart cancer cells' membrane."
The plasmons have an arm on one side, helping to connect the molecules to the cancer cell membranes while the movements of the vibrations bash them apart. It's still early days for the research, but these initial findings are very promising.
This is also the kind of straightforward, biomechanical technique that cancer cells would find it hard to evolve some sort of blockade against. Next, the researchers are looking at other types of molecules that can be used similarly
"This study is about a different way to treat cancer using mechanical forces at the molecular scale," says Ayala-Orozco.
The research has been published in Nature Chemistry.
Robert Heinlein predicted this in his novel "The 6th Column"............
Ping!.....................
Dr. Rife did it in 1934 and the government hounded him out of the country and out of his life. Cancer “treatments” were big business then and big business now.
Fascinating.
Translated:
Non-invasive surgery technique (ala ‘Dr. McCoy’).
But it cures nothing.
An Apple iPod a day keeps the doctor away.
In Heinlein’s novel, a researcher discovered that if you bombard certain diseases with electromagnetic waves of a particular frequency, the cells would die.
Each disease had a different frequency.
A tunable generator was devised and then you could just set the frequency for the particular disease.
It could also be used to kill people, in this novel Chinese Communist invaders, by tuning it to the frequency for their particular ‘race’.....................
I see this on my I-Phone every so often. All the icons start to “vibrate”. Is this the same principle, protecting my phone from viruses? (or viri) /s
Never seen that cover - excellent!
There’s a vibrator joke in her somewhere, but I am not going to try to find it
I have an old Tony Brown's Journal show that I learned that in, and it never left me.
Fascinating.
Wait!, there already is a “pain” therapy using this principle.
https://vibeplate.com/back-pain-relief-through-vibration-therapy/
Now you can cure your cancer at the same time! /s
calling Dr. Stadler...Dr. Stadler...
It does seem there is a certain amount of vindication here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rife
Yep
Vibrating molecules...guess they don’t have the same resonant freq as water or a microwave oven might work as a home cure. ;-)
Good, good, good, good vibrations.
I have this feeling that most of these scientists ‘disappear ‘ in the next ten years. It’s coming.
Too many college ‘educated’ morons out there.
The end times are close.
The experiments described all took place in vitro. The article does not say that the researchers have moved on to demonstrate the efficacy in animal studies. It doesn't say how they plan to target the cancer cells in intact organisms.
I personally have achieved a 100% kill rate of cancer cells in vitro using bleach in the lab. However, I would never recommend anyone try treating their cancer with bleach.
The chasm between results seen in vitro and those seen in intact animals is huge. Likewise, there is a huge chasm between animal study results and applicability to human treatments. I've seen things done in animals that would seem to be miracle cures, but I would be surprised if they ever reached clinical use.
The problem with treating cancer is that it is very difficult to find a treatment that ONLY targets cancer cells. Pretty much anything that kills cancer cells also kills normal cells. Targeting cancer cells for destruction while leaving normal cells untouched is a HUGE challenge for cancer researchers.
there, not her :-(
In other news, The Biden crime family is working with Pfizer to license the technology for the big pharma giant. Biden will get his 10% of the windfall.
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