Hum Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists. 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. One variant increased cancer-fighting effectiveness 100-fold. It means that if 100g of un-modified ecstasy was needed to get the desired effect, only 1g of the modified ecstasy would be needed to have the same effect. Scientists say this also reduced the toxic effect on the brain. more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Not to excuse the nonmedical use of MDMA of course. It does have severe side effects even after you come down; hypertension, induced psychosis, monoclonus, cardiac arrythmia, serotonin syndrome etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
articuno1au Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 **** yeah.. E! Interesting research though >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpus Veteran Posted August 20, 2011 Veteran Share Posted August 20, 2011 Always nice to see improvements in the field, especially when they use interesting drugs such as MDMA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokthraka Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 100 grams 0_o even 1 gram is a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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