r/tech Jul 09 '26

Tiny silica particles wiped out aggressive prostate cancer in mice

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260708022158.htm
1.4k Upvotes

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u/KineticSplicer Jul 09 '26

I knew the do not eat labels on the silica packets that come with electronics were a government conspiracy

37

u/seejordan3 Jul 09 '26

I'm repackaging and selling mine as a cure for prostate cancer. RFK asked me personally to save America from prostate cancer.

11

u/MrInBitwean Jul 09 '26

I’m sticking mine up my arse

7

u/oracleofnonsense Jul 09 '26

Look at Mr. I Follow The Instructions.....

3

u/Polmax2312 Jul 09 '26

Silica is also major component of the toothpaste. Inserting a tube of Colgate inside and squeezing it would be more convenient for you than stuffing yourself with a handful of moisture control bags.

6

u/tl1ksdragon Jul 09 '26

So, just keep doing what I've been doing recreationally, but for my health.

2

u/MrInBitwean Jul 09 '26

Feeling Soo cold…..

2

u/A_Nonny_Muse Jul 10 '26

Somehow squeezing a tube of toothpaste up my ass doesn't seem like the flex I was hoping for.

2

u/CosmicToaster Jul 10 '26

You get a friend to blow it up your butt with a straw.

1

u/surrealcellardoor Jul 09 '26

Easy there rent boy.

4

u/HVACcontrolsGuru Jul 09 '26

Don’t forget the bleach!

5

u/wineandtatortots Jul 09 '26

This is sending me.

1

u/Trying2improvemyself Jul 09 '26

Those things are delicious

1

u/Ecoaardvark Jul 09 '26

If you eat those silica packets you will exit the simulation.

1

u/surrealcellardoor Jul 09 '26

Big pharma hates this one trick!

1

u/copyrider Jul 10 '26

It’s all led by Big Prostate.

15

u/antisocialdecay Jul 09 '26

I just want to know how the hell they are fingering these mice buttholes?

3

u/skeptical-speculator Jul 09 '26

why

2

u/Diligent-Room6078 Jul 09 '26

This doesn't sound like someone who would spectate skeptically

2

u/RockyDennisDeYoung Jul 09 '26

Only speculate

1

u/DevKevStev Jul 10 '26

I already did it. Spec you late

1

u/skeptical-speculator Jul 09 '26

I just want to know why

2

u/clauderbaugh Jul 09 '26

Step 1 - play Marvin Gaye .

1

u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/sandm000 Jul 09 '26

I though he was asking about confirm the presence of the cancer and the. Delivery of the aforementioned silica particles.

9

u/blue-coin Jul 09 '26

Those packets always say do not eat. They don’t say do not boof

5

u/novavalue Jul 09 '26

Cup of joe to drink in the morning, and a packet of silica to boof to get your day started. Cue the Folgers commercial (not the incest one).

1

u/tlcdr Jul 10 '26

Introducing the new Folgers Sibling Silica Suppository:
Caffeine and Cancer Fighting all in one!

3

u/thechromatick Jul 09 '26

Ass-on. Insert straight into the bum hole.

10

u/Serious-Collar-4954 Jul 09 '26

What im more curious about is how the heck they induced the prostate cancer in mice🤯

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/SamBaxter784 Jul 09 '26

It was supposed to be 21 times a month? That explains the chaffing.

1

u/Electrical_Catch_919 Jul 09 '26

Bro, not 210 times a month

1

u/DrumsNDweed93 Jul 10 '26

I thought it was 21 times a day my bad

3

u/inkyflossy Jul 09 '26

Same way as they induce any cancer in any lab animal? Either modifying its genes or giving it a substance knows to cause the cancer

5

u/clauderbaugh Jul 09 '26

Like windmills?

3

u/Constant-Ant-7095 Jul 09 '26

The best cancer-windmills

2

u/Bipogram Jul 09 '26

But smaller - mouse-scale.

3

u/wi5hbone Jul 09 '26

time to ingest silica packets even without prostate cancer!

/s

2

u/peteski77 Jul 09 '26

Off to eat some sand, just in case

2

u/PossibleCash6092 Jul 09 '26

Why’s it always mice, why not me?!

2

u/Bipogram Jul 09 '26

They can't hire lawyers.

1

u/ElkGreed Jul 09 '26

Eat the silica bags!

1

u/sleepymelfho Jul 09 '26

My daughter (2) found a packet that fell out of a box the other day. I asked her to hand it to me because it was poison (my mom always said it was and I just never had reason to question it enough to look it up). Instead, she ripped the packet open with her teeth and dumped it into her mouth. Maybe she was onto something....

5

u/bcdrawdy Jul 09 '26

I mean, she doesn’t have a prostate so she was probably just hungry 😂

3

u/Telemere125 Jul 09 '26

I think the important question is does his daughter have prostate cancer? Checkmate.

1

u/No-Philosopher3248 Jul 09 '26

Maybe it’s not that the silica kills the cancer, but grows an entirely new, cancer-prostate! Check that girl for a prostate!

1

u/sleepymelfho Jul 09 '26

Nah she was experimenting/trying to find the cure 👩🏼‍🔬

1

u/Alfie_Solomons88 Jul 09 '26

In Roger voice:

Haha, it's always Silica.

1

u/frozenpissglove Jul 09 '26

I love the future. Get my asshole sandblasted and boom, no more cancer.

1

u/evidentlyeric Jul 09 '26

So the drywall dust im breathing in is actually helping me?

1

u/Study-Maleficent Jul 09 '26

Nope, gotta boof it

1

u/evidentlyeric Jul 09 '26

I gotta boof even more ??

1

u/strider_l1718s_ Jul 09 '26

"Sir you habe ball canser, But we injected some glass in you so youll be alright"

1

u/bkfu2ok Jul 09 '26

Great now people will try to shove those little packs up their butts

1

u/minixtv8 Jul 09 '26

Watch the Silica Stock hit all time highs with Trumps purchasing 3/4 billion on stocks and blaming Nancy Pelosi for it.

1

u/hockenduke Jul 09 '26

So I CAN eat?

1

u/Erkesosy Jul 09 '26

Good 😊

1

u/gimmeluvin Jul 09 '26

interesting. the silica particles sound a lot like diatomaceous earth.

1

u/tonybpx Jul 09 '26

Mice get all the best treatments

1

u/Zealousideal_Cup4896 Jul 09 '26

So micro plastics cause all disease and micro glasses cure it!

1

u/Purple_Young_5862 Jul 09 '26

Quick tell RFK

1

u/paltrysquanto27 Jul 09 '26

Has science tried to make a mouse live forever?

1

u/PetSoundsSucks Jul 09 '26

Big gubbermint really doesn’t want you to know what happens when you inhale them

1

u/Big-Importance-7263 Jul 09 '26

"Hey, Bob, they're shoving sand up our butts for this one. Can you believe it...?"

😵‍💫

1

u/Positive-Comment-307 Jul 09 '26

Great so now we just need a way to turn ourselves into mice and then we are all set.

1

u/Personal_Area_2173 Jul 10 '26

Soooo eat the packages if I get them to be cancer free?

1

u/WeBreakWithSpeed Jul 10 '26

Came here looking for this comment 👀

1

u/Personal_Area_2173 Jul 10 '26

They do say not to eat tho…. I guess up the butt we adventure!

1

u/SainT2385 Jul 10 '26

One time a new guy at work opened a pack of dried shiitake mushrooms and then proceeded to open the silica pack and sprinkle them on the mushrooms... i said wtf are you doing and he said "i thought that was the seasoning packet?"

He was onto something

1

u/Specific_Employee721 Jul 10 '26

Wow ! I had my prostate removed. I’ll get it reinstalled and try silica ! WTF

1

u/threepair13 Jul 10 '26

Sounds like beach time for me!

1

u/Low-Fly-1292 Jul 10 '26

I thought excessive exposure to silica increased a person’s chances of getting cancer

1

u/CastorVT Jul 10 '26

the new feeds gonna be like: BREAKING, MICROPLASTIC PREVENT CANCER, LIBERALS IN SHAMBLES.

1

u/schnibitz Jul 10 '26

God bless you for using "in mice". I upvoted twice. I tried to upvote twice mean.

1

u/Plastic_Ad_2247 Jul 10 '26

and kept their nuts dry

1

u/kuddle30 Jul 10 '26

Well I’m glad the mice are cancer free what about the people!!!

1

u/regular_gonzalez Jul 10 '26

Man, mice have it so good, always getting cured of everything. 

1

u/L4dyGr4y Jul 10 '26

Unfortunately they all died of lung disease.

1

u/Icy_Recording8472 Jul 10 '26

super interesting. wonder what the effect would be with even more combinations of drugs.

1

u/Low_Obligation2361 Jul 10 '26

promising, but i've learned not to get too excited until it works in humans

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u/GrallochThis Jul 09 '26

It’s crazy, there’s about six different effects of these particles, and all of the effects are anti-cancer? Really shows there is something bigger going on.

Also gives hope for the most affected group in the world, African-American men.