Responding to political pressure and popular demand for a largely untested cancer drug, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed into law today a measure that allows the renegade compound — synthetic phosphoethanolamine — to be produced and sold
legally as a cancer therapy in Brazil.
We therefore believe that a targeted inhibition of this specific signalling pathway, which controls how the cells in the vessel walls are connected, might work
better as a cancer therapy than the more general VEGFA inhibition that is used today,» says Lena Claesson - Welsh.
Interns will assist the research team with current or forthcoming pre-clinical research or clinical trials on natural
products as cancer therapy or preventive approach.
Next, they used a small molecule drug originally
developed as a cancer therapy (Ro5 - 3335) to inhibit the activity of RUNX1 in the eye, which led to a 50 % reduction in abnormal vascularization in a rat model of oxygen - induced retinopathy.
«We are pleased with the international interest in our hydrogel formulas and hope the hydrogels help develop meaningful medical applications that improve wellness, especially in areas
such as cancer therapies,» said Tim Fealey, CEO of PepGel LLC.
While this may be the desired result in applications such
as cancer therapy, researchers of sonogenetics typically want to avoid damage.