New Compound Discovery that may halt Cell Death in Degenerative Disease,like Parkinson.

[OREOLU]

This new discovery may have application to preventing cell death in humans.Please read below.I am not sure if this article has been posted yet,on this site.Cure is on the horizon they say for PD.

phys.org/news/2019-10-cell-...

[park_bear]

This is not likely the issue in Parkinson's. Also, before this idea is put to use in the clinic it would be essential to be sure this would not foster the growth of cancer.

[LAJ12345 in reply to park_bear]

Just what I was thinking!

[MarionP in reply to park_bear]

Very good comment.

For us relatively lay people, it would be worth noticing here that cancer is broadly (a little simplistically but still useful) described as "unregulated cell growth." 150 years ago this was what was meant by the original phrase to describe cancer as "consumption," that which grew so much and in such a way as to "consume" (or 'subsume' perhaps, whatever makes the point) everything else.

(For instance, those who have noticed the recent marketing of the idea that the cancers identified as "probably" influenced by the worldwide application of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, might be fun to realize that one might have suspected this about glyphosate, as its chemical action to kill grass, weeds, anything green above the ground (has a huge history as a worldwide wonder-chemical herbicide, and as widely applied for as long as it has been is certainly within us all, in quantity) is basically as a super growth hormone, forcing whatever it affects to grow so fast that it outgrows its ability to feed itself, and thereby starves and that is what kills the weed, grass, just about anything it touches...almost sounds like the basic definition of cancer if one thinks about it for a bit).

So the idea behind cancer treatments, like the breakthrough drugs to combat cancer, have all been about STOPPING the cancer growth, by getting the cancers to kill themselves, including initiating in the cancers the "apoptosis" mentioned in the article. So one central idea behind a fair number of them is to actually get the cancer cells to initiate "programmed cell death," rather than the opposite, that of stopping cell death, and thus opposed to the idea that the article was talking about, ie of keeping cells from dying.

Nice job Park Bear.