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Electricity kills things from another world, too, when scared soldiers accidently melt the ice with an electric blanket and free it . . . |
Posted on 03/14/2006 1:04:59 PM PST by Ben Mugged
A team of scientists from Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School has reported killing melanoma s in mice using lightning-fast, high-powered jolts of electricity.
The researchers expect their paper to be placed online Wednesday in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications .
It's the culmination of at least eight years of work seeking possible health benefits from short, high-voltage doses of electricity. The results, the researchers think , eventually could translate into an effective cancer treatment that carries no side effects.
"We've never had a tumor that didn't respond," said the lead researcher, Richard Nuccitelli , an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Old Dominion. "Every tumor has shrunk. We know we can eliminate them with the right conditions."
The electric bursts often disrupted the blood flow to the tumor cells and shrunk their nuclei by 50 percent, Nuccitelli said.
The scientists found that they could kill the tumors with hundreds of electrical pulses in two treatments given two to three weeks apart. Each burst of electricity carried 4,000 volts and lasted less than one-millionth of a second.
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Nah...we're just trying to knock some sense back into those poor fellas.
Probably not ...
But it will reduce your chances of collecting your pension.
LOL! Didn't think of that.
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Electricity kills things from another world, too, when scared soldiers accidently melt the ice with an electric blanket and free it . . . |
I can feel my IQ going down if I'm even in the same room with that... dance.
Killing cancer cells or killing brain cells ... seems different. Then again, what does that say about brain cells?
God Bless You!
What happens when they use less than lightning-fast jolts of electricity?
Supporting cities' smoking bans.
The bad news is it kill regular cells too.
>>>Great. Now we'll have to re-think the Zot!
No...Zots are much longer than the 1-millionth of a second discussed in the article. Zots are applied until there's smoke ...
Chemicals, advertising, telemarketers, and executives. If you find a cure, there are going to be a lot of scientists, universities, research facilities, and pharmaceutical companies short on $$, not to mention charities (i.e. American Cancer Society, etc.).
The Ameriquest commercial with the doc zapping a fly with the defibrillator comes to mind....
Prostate problems?
Prostate problems?
might be a cheap home cure, you first.
No, but your butter knife permit has been revoked.
The last thing the cancer industry wants is a cure.
Wish you could've seen the squirrel lightning fried in a pine in my back yard. It cured him of all those hair follacles, too - except for a tiny tuft at the end of his tail.
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