Hi everyone! Welcome to my first blogpost for the year! In this article, I will be writing about an article I came across on the internet.
Title of chosen article:Sickle cells show potential to attack aggressive cancer tumors
Overall, the main purpose of this article is to tell the world about this new scientific discovery. The key scientific question I feel that he is proposing is: Is chemotherapy the only cure for cancer?
In this article,the writer starts by introducing the research team which researched on this project.Basically,the team discovered that sickle cell,commonly thought as an enemy to humans as it causes the infamous Sickle Cell Disease,can be harnessed to starve cancer cells of their food.In Sickle Cell Disease,the sickle cells,being deformed,clot the blood vessels in the person, endangering his or her life.Similarly,when these cells are used to cure cancer,they happen to be attracted to cancerous cells,thus clotting around it and closing up all means of getting food!
I feels that this article can be trusted as firstly,this was put up in 'Science Daily',which should be reliable.Other sights that prove that this experiment is not fake include:Duke Health.org and First World Pharma. Moreover,the prove given by the author is persuasive.As stated in the article:
"In a National Institutes of Health-funded study of mice with breast cancer, the researchers gave the animals an infusion of fluorescently dyed sickle cells and viewed them under special window chambers that provide real-time observation of processes inside the body. Within five minutes, the deformed cells began to adhere to the blood vessels surrounding the hypoxic tumors. Over 30 minutes, the cells had formed clots and began blocking the small blood vessels that fed the tumor."
This means that they had did a test run on mice and had apparently worked!However,I feel that we still have to be careful of what we do.Firstly,cancer is a very dangerous topic. Secondly,this experiment has not been tried out on humans.As stated in the article:
"Dewhirst and Terman said the research team would continue to conduct studies in animals before moving to human trials."
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