Using the venom from 312 honeybees and bumblebees in Perth Western Australia, Ireland and England, Dr Ciara Duffy from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia, tested the effect of the venom on the clinical subtypes of breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer, which has limited treatment options.
Results published in the journal npj Precision Oncology revealed that honeybee venom rapidly destroyed triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer cells.
Dr Duffy said the aim of the research was to investigate the anti-cancer properties of honeybee venom, and a component compound, melittin, on different types of breast cancer cells.
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Big announcement coming tomorrow from the Royal Astronimical Society. This has been teased on reddit/twitter for a few days from people in the know, and it sounds like life, or signatures of life have been found on/around Venus or the atmosphere of Venus.
Huge, exciting stuff.
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Big announcement coming tomorrow from the Royal Astronimical Society. This has been teased on reddit/twitter for a few days from people in the know, and it sounds like life, or signatures of life have been found on/around Venus or the atmosphere of Venus.
Huge, exciting stuff.
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But are they a threat. Are we going to find them and collect samples and they turn out to be a hive mind disease that enslaves us and puts us to work in their sugar mines on other planets in their empire.
Maybe Covid is actually an invasion.
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When we finally discover life off of Earth, it's going to be a non-dramatic whimper to the public because it's going to be bacteria / microbial life - not aliens landing in flying saucers.
That's the first step though, in preparing the public for aliens landing in flying saucers.
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We might have already encountered alien life and not known it or recognized it for what it is.
Our notions of life is based around the laws on this planet and this environment. Who knows what's evolved out there.
I still have my doubt that someday some shiny UFO will land and some kind of bipedal alien pops out and starts trying to converse, or a massive ship arrives with a massive food processing ship manned by aliens being filmed for their planets version of deadliest catch.
We might not be able to see or perceive them or vice versa.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
We might have already encountered alien life and not known it or recognized it for what it is.
Our notions of life is based around the laws on this planet and this environment. Who knows what's evolved out there.
I still have my doubt that someday some shiny UFO will land and some kind of bipedal alien pops out and starts trying to converse, or a massive ship arrives with a massive food processing ship manned by aliens being filmed for their planets version of deadliest catch.
We might not be able to see or perceive them or vice versa.
Right.
But seeing it would be an amazing event. Single celled or not, how we understand life or not, it would be historic. Can’t run before you walk.
Did Scientists Just Find Life on Venus? Here's How to Interpret the Phosphine Discovery
Biosignatures do not guarantee life, but they are a compelling argument for further exploration
In the 1980s, the biologist David Dreamer used carboxylic acids extracted from the famous Murchison meteorite to demonstrate that these simple molecules would spontaneously form cellular membranes when added to water. According to Cockell, this suggests that the ingredients for cellular life are “strewn throughout the Solar System in carbon-rich rocks,” which means “we might expect the molecules of cellularity to form in any primordial cloud, ready to deliver their cargo of protocell material to the surface of any planet with a waiting abundance of water.” Later experiments demonstrated that meteorites are far from the only source of molecular material that can form cellular membranes, suggesting that this mode of organization is likely common in the universe.
One of the most remarkable features about DNA is that it is composed of only four nucleotides—adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine—that can only combine in very limited ways: adenine pairs with thymine and cytosine pairs with guanine. Is the fact that there are only four nucleotides or that they combine into two base pairs an evolutionary accident? Might an extraterrestrial intelligence have a genetic code built from six or more nucleotides, and might these nucleotides be different from the four that comprise the DNA of life on Earth? This is a possibility, of course, but there are strong reasons to believe that it is unlikely.
When we finally discover life off of Earth, it's going to be a non-dramatic whimper to the public because it's going to be bacteria / microbial life - not aliens landing in flying saucers.
That's the first step though, in preparing the public for aliens landing in flying saucers.
This planet is full of stupid people and it's those people who are going to think it's insignificant because it's not hollywood-style aliens.
But it will easily, very easily, be the biggest discovery in the history of humanity.