Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, they said in Investigational New Drugs journal.
Their early study showed all leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma cells could be killed in a test tube, but any treatment would be a decade away. […]
In 2006, a research team at the University of Birmingham showed that ecstasy and anti-depressants such as Prozac had the potential to stop cancers growing.
The problem was that it needed doses so high they would have been fatal if given to people.
The researchers, in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, have chemically re-engineered ecstasy by taking some atoms away and putting new ones in their place.
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August 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm
I told a friend of mine about this and she was like: “The cancer cells will be so happy that they will just die!” But seriously, this is totally awesome 🙂 Let’s just hope it won’t actually take them a decade to figure out how to practically administer it to those in need…