Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have found a gene in the tomato, which could be a great help and novelty, in the fight against brain cancer. Is not a cure, but if a breakthrough that could improve the quality of life of these people
This gene, is a species of suicide gene, which combined with the drug AZT, which is used in treatments against HIV, could lead to the suicide of cancer cells, without that this implies a risk to the rest. current treatments are based on introducing foreign genes in cancer cells of the patients, in combination with any drug, to help destroy these cells. This can stop the advance of cancer, at least for a couple of years.
Expected with this new discovery, achieve open a new front in the fight against this cruel disease, in a way that in a few years, achieve to synthesize a drug capable of destroying to the greatest extent possible, the cancer cells.
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