Friday, 18 January 2013

Method to produce amounts of anti-cancer substance developed

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2013



Scientists are reporting development of the first practical way to make large amounts of a promising new anti-cancer substance that kills cancer cells differently than existing medicines. Their article on synthesis of the substance, and tests demonstrating its effectiveness in the laboratory, appears in ACS' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Isamu Shiina and colleagues explain that the ......