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Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer::With the help of Axiom 3 astronauts on the International Space Station, a cancer "kill switch" drug may make it to clinical trials before year's end.

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[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I feel like we're told about some sort of "kill switch" or silver bullet for cancer every couple of years. Hopefully one of these days it'll actually beat fruit. Maybe even this time?

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds about right, the cure just costs a treatment and trip to space /s

"Does my MediCal cover Falcon 9?" ...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Good news, everybody!

Planet Express is the lowest bidder for low Earth orbit flights!

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh like in the venture bros

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

"It's on again."

"It's off again."

"It's on again."

"It's off again."

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Sharky's Machine!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah stupid Earth. Getting in the way of cancer research like it does.

Seriously we've been told that they found a cure for cancer about 500 times now and they never have actually found a cure.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They have though, there's tons of different cancers and now we have tons of different ways to treat each of them

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah but no actual ultimate cure. These articles seem to imply they have found the bee all an end-all cure for cancer. Which would be great if they found it I just doubt it because of all the historical situations where that has not been the case, and it is ultimately turned out that the so called journalists, not the same scientists, have been somewhat creative with the truth.

They have actually found a cure for cancer I would like the scientists to announce the discovery.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Treatment is not the same thing as cure.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Axiom 3 was slated for splashdown Saturday but has been delayed until Tuesday, at the earliest, due to weather, according to SpaceX, which manufactured the Crew Dragon spacecraft used for the mission.

It wasn’t the first time the team—led by Dr. Catriona H.M. Jamieson, a hematologist and medical professor at the college, as well as the director of its Sanford Stem Cell Institute—sent such samples into space.

It previously launched stem cells on multiple Space X flights and noticed that pre-leukemic changes occurred, unseen during the same timeframe in controls on the ground.

On previous missions, her team noticed that mini tumors sent to space activated the gene before tripling in size in just 10 days, a much faster rate of growth than seen on the ground.

On the last Axiom mission, Jamieson’s team sent up mini tumors treated with two types of anti-cancer medications that block ADAR1 in different ways.

Enthused by the results, Jamieson’s team began work on an experimental drug called rebecsinib that blocks ADAR1 activation in a different way—by preventing it from spawning malignant proteins.


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