Molecular Jackhammers the Coolest New Cancer Killers

Scientists may have come up with a new cancer-fighting tool and well, it functions sort of like a jackhammer that can break open and kill cancer cells. In the lab, it’s 99 percent effective.  

It involves two components. One is a molecule called aminocyanines already used in cancer treatment. It’s a molecular dye that marks cancer cells when it binds to them.  

Here’s where the jackhammer comes in. Researchers discovered that when aminocyanines were exposed to near infrared light, the molecules vibrated at 40 trillion oscillations per second. That generates massive mechanical forces that break open cancer cells killing them. ---More...

I seem to recall Donald Trump suggesting light could possibly be used against Covid, he was mocked.

Well, researchers have developed a breakthrough "molecular jackhammer" technique that uses near-infrared light to physically smash cancer cells. This potentially opens a new… pic.twitter.com/dslcDbarAD

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