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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the time-for-a-curry dept.

Scientists have claimed to have detected anti-cancer properties in three traditional varieties of rice found in Chhattisgarh.

[...] These varieties were taken from the rice germplasm bank preserved in IGKV, said Sharma, principal scientist at the genetics and plant breeding department of the agriculture university.

The three varieties of rice have properties to cure lungs and breast cancers without affecting normal cells, Sharma told PTI.

Indian scientists find anti-cancer properties in three rice varieties


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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:45AM (3 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:45AM (#640487) Journal

    rice have properties to cure lungs and breast cancers without affecting normal cells,

    Ok, I'm calling bullshit right there.
    Like all major announcements from Indian research organizations, things tend to get over hyped long before the research is done.

    https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/09/07/135259 [soylentnews.org]

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    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:17AM (#640500)

      What does a society that respects men's rights look like? A woman being beaten and raped violently on the streets. A woman thanking her rapist for utilizing her as a breeding sow. A woman vanishing from existence when discarded by the man who was finished utilized her. If society doesn't begin respecting the rights of men soon, only disaster will follow.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:17AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:17AM (#640528) Journal

      If it works, the populations consuming lots of this rice should show lower rates of these cancers.

      When most of the population is dead by 50, or even 40, from other diseases or industrial accidents or vehicle crashes, you aren't likely to find many with cancer.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:15PM (#640761)

      They must not be using enough pesticides on the rice.

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:47AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:47AM (#640488) Journal

    The research concluded that the necessary active ingredient can be achieved by consuming 200 gm of these varieties of rice daily by a person, he said.
    In the next stage of research, BARC scientists are trying to extract the anti-cancer ingredients or elements from these varieties and conduct trials on the mouse.
    Subsequently, they plan to develop it as dietary supplement which will be easy for consumption for people, he said.

    Surely all you need to do is eat it, then?
    Or doesn't that make enough money, you have to make a supplement or pill?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:31AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:31AM (#640531)

      You can't sell rice for $10/pill. Rice is dirt cheap, in fact, it's cheaper than dirt sometimes. Seriously, go to home depot and look at how much potting soil costs.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:57PM

        by Freeman (732) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:57PM (#640755) Journal

        You're not buying dirt when you buy potting soil. You're buying that "special blend" of chemicals, etc. that's premixed in that "bag of dirt". A bag of top soil by comparison is really cheap.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:12AM (#641749)

      You don't even need to eat it. Just throw it at people getting married. That should work.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:52AM (#640491)

    Traffic accident is an "anti-cancer" property. Come on, eds, you are better than this.

  • (Score: 2) by beckett on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:17AM

    by beckett (1115) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:17AM (#640526)

    The soylent summary was terrible and the only provided link is woefully short of any detail, and I can't seem to find a publication with these findings. Anybody have any luck "researching" for the actual paper?

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by AnonTechie on Tuesday February 20 2018, @09:30AM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @09:30AM (#640560) Journal
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:21PM (#640764)

    don't worry monsanto will contaminate the crops with their human killing frankenrice to do their part in fighting overpopulation.

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