laboratoryequipment:Anti-psychotic Meds Kill TumorsResearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine ha
laboratoryequipment:Anti-psychotic Meds Kill TumorsResearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that FDA-approved anti-psychotic drugs possess tumor-killing activity against the most aggressive form of primary brain cancer, glioblastoma. The finding was published in Oncotarget.The team of scientists, led by principal investigator, Clark Chen, vice-chairman, UC San Diego School of Medicine, division of neurosurgery, used a technology platform called shRNA to test how each gene in the human genome contributed to glioblastoma growth. The discovery that led to the shRNA technology won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 2006.Continue reading at Laboratory Equipment -- source link
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