Scientists Find 'Kill Switch' That Activates Cancer Cell Death in The Lab

Why would the lab have been built with a switch that makes someone working there die from cancer? That's awful.

I feel like I've been reading stories about scientists finding cancer "kill switches" for decades.

https://xkcd.com/1217/

So if I'm understanding this correctly

Some cancer treatments work great, but they can't breach the outer barriers of tumor clumps. As such, they're only approved for things like blood cancer.

This new treatment acts like a breacher charge, binding to one of the tumour's outer barrier cells and triggering cell death, thus creating an access point.

So this new treatment could allow us to use those other treatments for additional cancer types since now they can get into the tumor clumps?

Pretty cool!

It's cool that this could be a thing and has been demonstrated to work in vitro, but a lot of these drugs die off because they simply aren't effective (or safe to use) in vivo, so I'll hold my judgement until we see it working in live subjects.

Is that the one, the T-cells are using?

This is Great news! Let's hope big pharma doesn't shut them down and their research is gone into dust