Sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria revealed to cause cancer cells to explosively self destruct through pyroptosis

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Sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria revealed to cause cancer cells to explosively self destruct through pyroptosis - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

I imagine this will be similar to chemotherapy.

As in, it technically affects all your cells, it just happens to affect cancer cells a lot more. In this case, because they try to absorb extra sugars in many cases.

As a chemist that makes me wonder why they dont wrap the platinum in sugar complexes

Yup, platinum chemo exists already too.

Still makes one feel really nauseated by the second time