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A nationwide shortage of a generic drug that can shrink and control brain tumors in children raises questions about how critical medicines can go scarce. Life-saving pediatric cancer drugs are frequently unavailable due to shortages. Since being diagnosed with a brain tumor nearly a year ago, my son has lived much like any 5-year-old – in […]
Following the discovery of penicillin as an antibiotic by Alexander Fleming in 1928, searches were carried out in order to discover more potent and specialist agents for specific bacterial infections. Throughout this search, compounds synthesised from soil microbes proved to be a fantastic source of agents, of which many were shown to less of a […]
Cell biologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have targeted telomeres with a small molecule called 6-thiodG that takes advantage of the cell’s ‘biological clock’ to kill cancer cells and shrink tumor growth. Dr. Jerry W. Shay, Professor and Vice Chairman of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern, and colleague, Dr. Woodring E. Wright, Professor of Cell […]
