Jan. 18th, 2007

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Via Instapundit, this article about a cheap, off-patent drug that seems to wake up the mitochondria in cancer cells. The awakened mitochondria apparently then look at the cell and say, "Hey, you should die now." And the cell does, so the patient doesn't.

There do appear to be side-effects, but -- so far -- none that look nearly as bad as, say, dying.

Of course, also as usual, we haven't gotten around to human testing yet.
billroper: (Default)
Via Instapundit, this article about a cheap, off-patent drug that seems to wake up the mitochondria in cancer cells. The awakened mitochondria apparently then look at the cell and say, "Hey, you should die now." And the cell does, so the patient doesn't.

There do appear to be side-effects, but -- so far -- none that look nearly as bad as, say, dying.

Of course, also as usual, we haven't gotten around to human testing yet.

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