Nirmal Singh 3C

Researchers have been analysing data from various patients, 269 AML to be precise, and found that the survival rate of the patients improved through the activity of HOX genes. The problem with cancer cells is that they are immortal if you can make them mortal, the cells, then you can treat even the most aggressive forms of cancer. Scientists in London have brought out a new drug that creates that situation – it makes the cancer cells mortal. The drug, which is being called HXR9, disables the cancer cells from making the unhealthy cells in the patient’s body to die. Sidestepping apoptosis is what the process is called when cancer cells start affecting the damaged and unhealthy cells in the body – the new drug prevents the cells from doing that. - Nirmal Singh 3C Researchers from London found that the drug can be effectively used to treat AML and other forms of Leukemia. The drug has been this successful in the trail period as it specifically targets the HOX genes that ar...