This study forms a new rationale for the use of chloroquine in anti-cancer treatment. (sciencedaily.com)
In collaborating with the Houston Methodist Cancer Center, they identified the anti-malarial drug chloroquine as a potential cancer stem cell killer. (sciencedaily.com)
It is key to its antimalarial property and makes artemisinin - based drugs entirely different from those derived from quinine, such as chloroquine, to which malarial parasites have become resistant. (sciencemag.org)