Current news stories
“Standard cancer therapies attack healthy tissue as well as cancer cells,
causing side effects that can limit treatment,” explains Associate Professor
Michael Hay from the ACSRC at The University of Auckland and the Maurice Wilkins
Centre. “By designing new drugs that target some of the abnormal biological
processes unique to cancer cells, it may be possible to fight cancer with
minimal side effects.”
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A second anticancer “stealth” drug designed by New Zealand scientists has been
targeted for clinical development under a collaborative agreement between
Proacta Incorporated (San Diego) and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd. (Tokyo).
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