New path for colon cancer drug discovery

Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 06:00 in Health & Medicine

An old pinworm medicine is a new lead in the search for compounds that block a signalling pathway implicated in colon cancer. The findings, reported by Vanderbilt University Medical Centre researchers in the November issue of Nature Chemical Biology, suggest a fresh approach for developing therapeutics that target the pathway...

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