Juice rice cells can knock out two types of human cancer cells as well or better than the potent anticancer drug Taxol, a scientist at Michigan Technological University discovered in laboratory tests. Moreover, Taxol does something you can not do: playing well with normal cells.
Biologist Wusirika Ramakrishna and his team made their fight against cancer shaker with drops of rice stem cells called callus, grown in the lab using garden-variety seed plant rice Oryza sativa. Then secretions collected from these calli and applied to the cells of the colon and kidney cancer in laboratory.
After 96 hours exposure to a solution of 20-a callus of rice-1, 95 percent of kidney cancer cells were killed along with 83 percent of colon cancer cells, while normal cells lung were virtually unscathed. Taxol was lethal to cancer cells well, but also kill significant numbers of normal cells.
Wusirika believes the rice callus culture can attack the cancer with the same kind of plant chemicals that make very healthy vegetables to eat.
"They are full of metabolic compounds that are good for us," he says. "We believe that is what is killing the cancer."
Then test the solution Wusirika like rice callus in the prostate, lung and breast cancer cells, the most common types of cancer .. "We will work with all of them, but we have to find out," he said.
He also wants to determine which of the compounds released by the rice callus has cancer-fighting properties and how they work against tumor cells. Or, he says, it is possible that the suite of biochemicals in callus solution work as a team to fight cancer.
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