Cancer cure by malaria vaccine accidentally discovered: study

While investigating a way to create an effective malaria vaccine for pregnant women without it attacking the placenta, Danish researchers found that their experimental malaria vaccine can attack cancer cells. The research was published on the journal Cancer Cell and states that the researchers have found a way to destroy cancer tumors by using the way malaria attacks the placenta. This is possible because tumors and the placenta are characteristically similar. “The placenta is an organ, which within a few months grows from only few cells into an organ weighing approximately 2 pounds, and it provides the embryo with oxygen and nourishment in a relatively foreign environment,” according to study author Ali Salanti, via the University of Copenhagen News. “In a manner of speaking, tumors do much the same—they grow aggressively in a relatively foreign environment.” The researchers mixed the malaria protein and a toxin which destroys cancer. When applied in lab...