Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells
Monday, January 5, 2009 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers has provided insight into how scientists might develop therapies and drugs that more carefully target cancer, while sparing normal healthy cells.
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