Scientists discover new molecule that kills hard to treat cancers

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Dr Ahn worked with UT Southwestern Medical Center professor Dr Ganesh Raj and Ratna Vadlamudi from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on the research. Triple-negative breast cancer, or TNBC, is an aggressive form of breast cancer that comprises about 15% of new breast cancer diagnoses.

The researchers altered the molecule’s structure and tested it on breast cancer cells, using TNBC cells as a baseline. They weren’t expecting it to work on the TNBCs – after all, the molecule wasn’t designed to kill those cells. Healthy cells have less LIPA compared to TNBC cells. The researchers found that ERX-41 successfully killed human cancer cells in mice without significantly harming healthy cells.

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