Cancer: Brain-derived compounds show surprising benefits
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 16:40
in Health & Medicine
In a Veterans Affairs study, a humanmade compound based on a brain hormone spurred the growth of cancer in Petri dishes but enigmatically had the opposite effect in mice. The compound and others like it are being looked at not only for their effect on cancer, but for their ability to regrow healthy tissue to heal damaged hearts and other organs.