Medicinal chemists modify sea bacteria byproduct for use as potential cancer drug

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 21:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have modified a toxic chemical produced by tiny marine microbes and successfully deployed it against laboratory models of colon cancer. More work is needed before a human treatment can be considered, but it appears to be a novel way to kill tumor cells.

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