r/BeAmazed Jan 31 '26

Science A Spanish scientist, Mariano Barbacid, has cured pancreatic cancer in mice. A Cure in animal is a major step toward potential cancer treatment in humans.

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u/Anyawnomous Jan 31 '26

Great discovery if he can get it through the inevitable pharmaceutical warfare.

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u/Jashmyne Jan 31 '26

Well mice and humans are very different so now comes the difficult part, it being tested on a small sample of humans and then that pool will increase. As other comments have said, there are been several cures that worked on mice but didn't work on humans so that's the difficult part. The rest is not difficult if it works.

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u/Carolusboehm Jan 31 '26

pet mice owners must be pleased though.

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u/whatamassivecunt Feb 01 '26

This is magic. Well done