Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/

Wow, this is humorous .. whats next, the eye of the newt cures wistfulness? I sure hope so.

Seriously though, we are living in an era where the more the science broadens its horizons, the more it just looks like plain ol' witchcraft.

I'm hoping there'll be some uses for figs we haven't thought of, next ..

Bryan Johnson might be interested in IV’ing frog gut bacteria.

Mice are having a great year

The AI- generated diagram is plausible but horribly wrong the more you look at it. Thank goodness the original paper didn’t use that, it’s just this awful blog post that makes the research look like slop.

100 years of trying everything to kill bacteria, and we find they can be jolly useful

lol

I wonder if animals have always seen frogs as unpleasant medicine they need to eat occasionally. My dog would happily scarf them down if I let him. Or does it have to be IV administered?

Also who thinks -- "hmm we've found a new random bacteria --- let's give a bunch of tumors to mice and then IV inject this random thing into them!"?

There must have been something about the microbe that gave them a hint. Maybe it's in the cited original article and was left out of the blog post.

The blog articles (6 weeks old) describes this as new, but the linked paper is closer to 6 months old. Random report of the same bacteria giving a chemo patient sepsis: https://www.cureus.com/articles/342789-sepsis-caused-by-ewin... which seems unfortunate

Before anybody gets too excited they should check out some of the other reporting on that site, such as "COVID-19 Vaccine is the Culprit in Majority Found Dead after Injection" and "Trump Signed a Directive to Accelerate 6G Deployment to Operate "Implantable Technologies"

Crank blog, very skeptical

To give more credit to this blog post, the NIH published findings on this same subject last year.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12710904/

The blog is highly suspect, but the study is real. That said it’s not a big deal.

Curing cancer in a mouse model is not at all uncommon in new therapies. Mouse models like this are vastly easier to treat than real world cancer for a bunch of reasons. Fully curing mice is the baseline for a treatment to even be considered for further evaluation. And even then very few therapies end up succeeding in humans - low single digit percent.

So yes, another possible treatment. But not at all a breakthrough.

Sorry but the site looks too sensationalist for me.

Is there any other source?