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Cancer: Brain-derived compounds show surprising benefits

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

Source: Veterans Affairs Research Communications From: sciencedaily.com A lab team led by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Andrew Schally at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and the University of Miami showed that a synthetic compound based on a brain hormone spurred the growth of cancer cells in Petri dishes but enigmatically had the opposite effect in mice. The surprising discovery, …