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NEW CANCER
DRUG SHOWS GREAT PROMISE
Danish
researchers have developed a new drug against prostate cancer in collaboration
with researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the biotech company Genspera
in the USA.
The
cornerstone of the new cancer drug is the substance thapsigargin, which is
extracted from the Thapsia garganica, a plant that grows in the Mediterranean.
The
scientists are currently trying to get mosses and yeast to form thapsigargin,
which would provide sufficient amounts of the substance to produce the cancer
drug on a large scale.
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