This is how science uses sperm to ... treat cancer

Researchers used to deliver anticancer drugs to tumors.

According to Engadget, chemotherapy has many terrible side effects and it is an inevitable part because the drugs used to fight cancer also attack healthy cells. Finding a way to deliver drugs to tumors without affecting healthy tissue is a challenge and a problem researchers are trying to solve.

Sperm naturally move, they can cover the drug so it is not diluted by body fluids or leaks.

According to New Scientist, a group of scientists at Leibniz Research Institute found that sperm can become an effective drug delivery tool. Specifically, sperm provides quite a lot of benefits when distributing drugs. They move naturally, they can cover drugs so that it is not diluted by body fluids or leaks, and they protect the drug from enzymes that can break them. They also do not cause an immune response like other cell types - such as bacteria - and they do not contribute to the formation of other unwanted bacteria.

Researchers point out that just by immersing sperm in a drug - in this case, a type called doxorubicin - the sperm will absorb the drug and store it inside its 'body'. And when the oral sperms were brought to the tumor, they reduced nearly 90% of cancer cells living after 72 hours. Furthermore, the researchers attached tiny helmets to sperm cells that allowed the cells to navigate them to tumors. When the cells hit the tumor, the helmet will burst, releasing sperm and allowing it to enter the tumor.

Researchers found that sperm is better at fighting cancer cells because sperm can get inside cells and deliver more than a drug solution that is inserted into the body in the usual way. .

This research is only at the preliminary stage but promising. In the future, researchers need to calculate the amount of medication and how to control them with sperm. They also need to consider how many sperms are ideal and what will happen to these "transport" sperms if they harm the human body .