Researchers boost potency, reduce side effects of IL-2 protein used to treat cancer
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
The utility of a naturally occurring protein given, sometimes to great effect, as a drug to treat advanced cancers is limited by the severe side effects it sometimes causes. But scientists have now generated a mutant version of the protein whose modified shape renders it substantially more potent than the natural protein while reducing its toxicity.