re: MIZZOU is curing cancer

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While I'm excited to see how this progresses in future studies I don't believe the no side effects. The article states that the boron breaks into Li and He.

As most people know, lithium is used to treat bipolar by affecting brain chemistry. Furthermore, if y'all can remember freshman chemistry, alpha radiation is a helium nucleus (just the protons and neutrons). Usually alpha radiation isn't a problem because it can be stopped with only a sheet of paper. However, if an alpha emitter gets inside of your body it can majorly frick some shite up.

I assume these researchers were smart enough to figure this out first, but I'll keep my skepticism until the human clinical trials start.

Good first step though, and it makes for one hell of a press release

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Mizzou is the home to radioactive pharmaceuticals. over 95% of the US production is done at Mizzou's nuclear reactor. Mizzou also invented the "magic bullet" where radioactive isotopes were attached to specific receptors in order to provide targeted radiation treatment at specific organs/tissues instead of submitting the whole body to the radiation.

Mizzou is well aware of what radiation does to humans.