Curry cooking ingredient could provide recipe for fight against cancer
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists are pioneering the use of a common curry cooking ingredient to target cancer cells. The research is making use of actual tissue from tumors extracted from patients undergoing surgery. The aim is use tissue from the colorectal tumors to effectively target chemo-resistant cells using curcumin, an extract of the commonly used root turmeric.