Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Cancer drug blasts melanoma; breakthrough?

Cancer is a scourge; it frequently causes premature end of life, even in people that have lived relatively healthy lifestyles. Thus, a potential to truly "cure" cancer, at least to understand it such that a true cure might be found, is Big News.

I hope this is.

Is this cancer's 'penicillin moment'? Gene targeting drug could herald 'end game' for disease

Here's a more "scientific" take on the drug, with a link to the Nature paper about it, but for the latter you have to have a subscription or that archaic structure known as a 'library'.

Highlight: Scientific breakdown of cancer reveals promising results

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