Scientists make anti-cancer compounds
Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesising a family of compounds that can potentially kill cancer and other diseased cells, representing a unique category of anti-cancer agents.
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Ze-Guang Han and colleagues, at the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, have now identified SCARA5 as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a form of liver cancer that is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.
The research is reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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