The suicide bomings open up new idea in medicine?
ByEverything is for good. Osama gets credit for many new inventions. He can patent his inventions. It is a proof that constructive people find light even in destructions. Indian has to learn lot of lessons from it.
Can drugs induce cancer cells to commit suicide? That’s the goal of Apo2L/ TRAIL, a protein jointly developed by Genentech (DNA ) and Amgen (AMGN ) that activates two different cell-suicide pathways. In the first clinical trial of the drug, cancer growth was halted in 26 of 37 patients assessed.
A second cell-suicide drug, Astellas Pharma’s YM155, was tested in 41 patients with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, prostate cancer, and colon cancer. The tumors shrank in five. Side effects for both drugs were far less than found with standard chemo.
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March 6th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Interesting theory, never heard it before, or if I did, I did not pay much attention to it. You have any links or source to this? Thanks!