Cancer Cure

The weed that causes cancer may well kill it

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Tobacco has been associated with and much maligned for causing cancers. Researchers have now found that the tobacco plant’s defence mechanism could well work in humans to destroy invading cancer cells.

A molecule called NaD1 is found in the flower of the tobacco plant that fights off fungi and bacteria. This compound also has the ability to identify and destroy cancer, the team discovered.

“This is a welcome discovery whatever the origin,” Mark Hulett from La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science in Melbourne was quoted as saying.

The molecule, found in nicotiana sylvestris (flowering tobacco) plant, forms a pincer-like structure that grips onto lipids present in the membrane of cancer cells.

It then effectively rips them open, causing the cell to expel its contents and explode.

According to researchers, this universal defence process could also potentially be harnessed for the development of antibiotic treatment for microbial infections.

The pre-clinical work is being conducted by the Melbourne biotechnology company Hexima. “The preliminary trials have looked promising,” said Hulett.

The study was published in the journal eLife.

Source: Times of India

cancer fighting nanorobot may be able to target tumors

Could nanorobots be the next big cancer-fighting tool? Researchers from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea have created so-called “Bacteriobot,” a genetically-modified non-toxic salmonella bacteria that delivers cancer treatments that target tumors.

The bacteria is attracted to chemicals released by cancer cells. The Bacteriobot then goes directly to the tumors and releases the medication stored inside, attacking the problem areas. Traditional cancer treatments often wreak havoc on healthy tissues and other internal organs, so any treatment that can target just the tumors while sparing other tissue is highly sought after.

“First of all, the main feature of Bacteriobot is that the robot has a sensing function to diagnose the cancer, and it’s attacking the cancer itself as it uses the bacteria’s brain while moving toward the tumor region with its flagella,” Park Jong-Oh, director of robot research initiative at Chonnam National University, told Reuters.

Nanorobots in medicine isn’t an entirely new approach. CNET reported that Duke researchers were able to create a nanorobot called a “DNA nanocage” that could hold and release a biomolecule as well.

Source: inagist

Vitamin C – A Powerful Cancer Cure?

A 2008 Vitamin C – End All Disease study conducted by the National Institute of Health found that, when injected into mice, Vitamin C could slow the growth of tumours. Despite the long history of research into vitamin C and cancer with many of the same findings, the research paper presented its findings as new. Curative health affects using vitamin C therapy have been known for a long time.

Studies on Vitamin C and Cancer

* A study conducted in 1969 found that Vitamin C would selectively kill cancer cells without harming normal cells. These scientific findings were largely ignored by the medical establishment.
* Clinical trials conducted by 2x Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and surgeon Ewan Cameron were able to prolongue the lives of cancer patients 6x longer than they would have lived without Vitamin C.1
* A 1994 study conducted by Dr. Art Robinson found that mice with cancer fed a diet of raw vegetables and given high-dose vitamin C lived up to 20 times longer than the control mice.2
* After reviewing the existing literature, Steve Hickey, Ph.D and Hilary Roberts, Ph.D found that in high enough doses, Vitamin C acts as an anti-cancer medicine.3

How Does Vitamin C Work to Kill Tumours?

In healthy tissues, Vitamin C works as an antioxidant to clean up and remove free radicals, and in cancer cells it acts as an oxidant which kills abnormal cells and generates free radicals.

When blood levels of Vitamin C are maintained at a consistently high level, it is absorbed into tumour tissues, where it generates hydrogen peroxide, killing cancer cells.

If you want to understand why Vitamin C can detoxify ANY known chemical, here’s what you need to know:

* All toxins are pro-oxidant in the body, which means they take electrons away from cells unless neutralized with antioxidants. This oxidative stress damages cells.
* Increasing your body’s blood levels of the antioxidant Vitamin C will give the toxins something to consume so that they cannot negatively effect your cells, and they are then removed from the body.

Source: end all disease