Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death

Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by endymi0n on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:26PM (#25520470)

And this is just a view limited to opioids. In general, there is no shortage of compounds with an ability to kill cancer cells since the 1950s.

The grand (and still largely unsolved) challenge is not killing them, it‘s sparing the rest of the body while doing so.

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Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by Pxtl on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:44PM (#25521336)

https://xkcd.com/1217/

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Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by dmix on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:18PM (#25525016)

After watching enough "Journey to the Microcosmos" I'm not longer convinced a handgun is. good enough analogy for killing cellular life :p

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g

It's a wild and highly resistant world we don't know nearly enough about.

I think this paper's intentions was merely to understand it all better (which is a great thing0, while most people are taking issue, or at least providing much needed context, with an article suggesting some utility in fighting cancer.

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Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by radoslawc on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:37PM (#25522516)

I've came here to post this. Thanks

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