Saturday, November 16, 2024

Lizard Spit Can Help Detect a Rare Pancreatic Tumor

A molecule in lizard saliva may make it easier to find certain tumors in the pancreas.

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... Insulinomas -- benign tumors that can cause low blood sugar and sudden fainting spells -- are notoriously hard to detect using current scanning methods.

But by using a tweaked variant of a protein found in Gila monster saliva as a radioactive tracer, a new type of PET scan found the tumors in 95 percent of confirmed cases, researchers report in the October Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

PET scans used now to detect such tumors had just a 65 percent success rate, the team found. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-15 07:24 PM

Lizard spit can help detect a rare pancreatic tumor

Proving that Melania is not as useless as the MSM would have us believe.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-11-15 07:38 PM

Gracie? Your nation needs your spit.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-15 09:22 PM

James Carville anyone?

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-11-16 05:11 PM

"Lizard spit can help detect a rare pancreatic tumor"

And worms eating your brains can help you get a high paid gubmint job.

We definitely live in interesting times.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-17 12:14 PM

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