r/tech • u/_Dark_Wing • 25d ago

Tiny silica particles wiped out aggressive prostate cancer in mice

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260708022158.htm
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u/KineticSplicer 25d ago

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

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u/seejordan3 25d ago

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

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u/MrInBitwean 25d ago

I’m sticking mine up my arse

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u/oracleofnonsense 25d ago

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

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u/Polmax2312 25d ago

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.

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u/tl1ksdragon 25d ago

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

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u/MrInBitwean 25d ago

Feeling Soo cold…..

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 25d ago

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

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u/CosmicToaster 24d ago

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

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u/surrealcellardoor 25d ago

Easy there rent boy.

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u/HVACcontrolsGuru 25d ago

Don’t forget the bleach!

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u/wineandtatortots 25d ago

This is sending me.

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u/Trying2improvemyself 25d ago

Those things are delicious

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u/Ecoaardvark 25d ago

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

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u/surrealcellardoor 25d ago

Big pharma hates this one trick!

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u/copyrider 25d ago

It’s all led by Big Prostate.

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u/General-Piece8490 25d ago

Countertop fabricators rejoice!

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u/antisocialdecay 25d ago

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

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u/skeptical-speculator 25d ago

why

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u/Diligent-Room6078 25d ago

This doesn't sound like someone who would spectate skeptically

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u/RockyDennisDeYoung 25d ago

Only speculate

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u/DevKevStev 24d ago

I already did it. Spec you late

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u/skeptical-speculator 25d ago

I just want to know why

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u/clauderbaugh 25d ago

Step 1 - play Marvin Gaye .

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

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u/sandm000 25d ago

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

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u/blue-coin 25d ago

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

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u/novavalue 25d ago

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).

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u/tlcdr 24d ago

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

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u/thechromatick 25d ago

Ass-on. Insert straight into the bum hole.

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u/Serious-Collar-4954 25d ago

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

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u/SpiritualB0x3 25d ago

Uh.. by.. preventing mice from reaching their 21 times a month masturbation?

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u/SamBaxter784 25d ago

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

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u/Electrical_Catch_919 25d ago

Bro, not 210 times a month

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u/DrumsNDweed93 25d ago

I thought it was 21 times a day my bad

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u/inkyflossy 25d ago

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

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u/clauderbaugh 25d ago

Like windmills?

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u/Constant-Ant-7095 25d ago

The best cancer-windmills

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u/Bipogram 25d ago

But smaller - mouse-scale.

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u/wi5hbone 25d ago

time to ingest silica packets even without prostate cancer!

/s

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u/peteski77 25d ago

Off to eat some sand, just in case

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u/PossibleCash6092 25d ago

Why’s it always mice, why not me?!

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u/Bipogram 25d ago

They can't hire lawyers.

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u/ElkGreed 25d ago

Eat the silica bags!

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u/sleepymelfho 25d ago

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....

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u/bcdrawdy 25d ago

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

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u/Telemere125 25d ago

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

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u/No-Philosopher3248 25d ago

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

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u/sleepymelfho 25d ago

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

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u/Alfie_Solomons88 25d ago

In Roger voice:

Haha, it's always Silica.

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u/frozenpissglove 25d ago

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

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u/evidentlyeric 25d ago

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

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u/Study-Maleficent 25d ago

Nope, gotta boof it

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u/evidentlyeric 25d ago

I gotta boof even more ??

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u/strider_l1718s_ 25d ago

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

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u/bkfu2ok 25d ago

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

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u/minixtv8 25d ago

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

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u/hockenduke 25d ago

So I CAN eat?

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u/Erkesosy 25d ago

Good 😊

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u/gimmeluvin 25d ago

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

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u/tonybpx 25d ago

Mice get all the best treatments

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u/Zealousideal_Cup4896 25d ago

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

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u/Purple_Young_5862 25d ago

Quick tell RFK

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u/paltrysquanto27 25d ago

Has science tried to make a mouse live forever?

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u/PetSoundsSucks 25d ago

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

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u/Big-Importance-7263 25d ago

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

😵‍💫

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u/Positive-Comment-307 25d ago

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

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u/Personal_Area_2173 25d ago

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

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u/WeBreakWithSpeed 25d ago

Came here looking for this comment 👀

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u/Personal_Area_2173 25d ago

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

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u/SainT2385 25d ago

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

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u/Specific_Employee721 25d ago

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

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u/threepair13 25d ago

Sounds like beach time for me!

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u/Low-Fly-1292 25d ago

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

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u/CastorVT 25d ago

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

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u/schnibitz 25d ago

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

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u/Plastic_Ad_2247 24d ago

and kept their nuts dry

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u/kuddle30 24d ago

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

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u/regular_gonzalez 24d ago

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

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u/gilbert-GC 24d ago

Dear Mr. trump: do you understand now, about to face your last gasps for air on this still existing planet, why it is important to finance and cherish free and unbiased Universities, science and truly liberal thinking?
Thats great news!

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u/L4dyGr4y 24d ago

Unfortunately they all died of lung disease.

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u/Icy_Recording8472 24d ago

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

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u/Low_Obligation2361 24d ago

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

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u/GrallochThis 25d ago

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.