“CANCER CELLS TO SUICIDE CELLS” TROJAN HORSE

SAMRAT SARKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA

With the development of medical science, people and nature are bringing about beautiful solutions by which we can deal with diseases via healthy combinations. 

Cancer is a major threat to people for decades, people are working day in and day out for proper outcomes, but the outcomes made are having some major side effects. Scientists from Singapore have found a way to incorporate nanotechnology as a solution. A chemical is taken from our daily dairy and meat, mixed with an amino acid namely L-phenylalanine. 

Now L-phenylalanine being one of the major requirements for allowing the cancer cells to grow and spread is used as a bait by which the chemical extract can react to the cell, eventually leading the cell to go for a ‘suicide’. The chemical here is an amino acid mimic namely Nanoscopic phenylalanine Porous Amino Acid Mimic (Nano-pPAAM). This process causes the reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the cancer cells to cause a cascade effect, ultimately leading to the self-death of the cancer cells; unharming the other cells at all.

Being a big success on mice, causing as much as 80% cure rates to some of the major cancer sites, researchers are trying their way out to make it 0% side effect to the human body and making use this technology to be a ‘delivery mechanism for drugs’ as told by scientists Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. 

Site:- https://www.rt.com/news/501898-trojan-horse-treatment-tricks-cancer/

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