Researchers find way to protect healthy cells from radiation damage
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 04:07
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, may be hot on the heels of a Holy Grail of cancer therapy: They have found a way to not only protect healthy tissue from the toxic effects of radiation treatment, but also increase tumour death. The findings appear today in Science Translational Medicine...