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SCIENTISTS in Southampton have helped create a technique which can cause cancer cells to self-destruct by injecting them with salt.
Researchers from the University of Southampton are part of an international team that has helped to create a molecule that can cause cancer cells to die by carrying sodium and chloride ions into the cells.
Synthetic ion transporters have been created before but this is the first time researchers have demonstrated how an influx of salt into a cell triggers cell death.
Now the team led by the Texas University has become the first in the world to successfully demonstrate how the technology can be used to kill cancerous cells with an influx of salt.
But their creation still needs extra woRk before it is safe to use on humans.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11404742.Scientists_fight_cancer_cells___with_salt/
Researchers from the University of Southampton are part of an international team that has helped to create a molecule that can cause cancer cells to die by carrying sodium and chloride ions into the cells.
Synthetic ion transporters have been created before but this is the first time researchers have demonstrated how an influx of salt into a cell triggers cell death.
Now the team led by the Texas University has become the first in the world to successfully demonstrate how the technology can be used to kill cancerous cells with an influx of salt.
But their creation still needs extra woRk before it is safe to use on humans.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11404742.Scientists_fight_cancer_cells___with_salt/