Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeScientists in Britain have invented a "sugar bomb" which destroys cancer cells in a matter of seconds, it has emerged. Cancerous tumours need "food" to spread, so they consume the "bomb" which has a drug inside it. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh combined the tiny cancer-killing molecule SeNBD with a chemical food compound to trick malignant cells into ingesting it. Healthy cells are not harmed by the drug and it only works against cancer cells because they grow fast and need more food than the healthy ones. Tests showed that the "sugar bomb" destroyed the sugar-craving cells in the tumour in mere seconds.

Source: Daily Mirror May 31, 2021 11:54 UTC