New poll: Almost half of US adults unaware of connection between processed meat consumption and colorectal cancer
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‘Undruggable' cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments because drugs cannot bind to them. New Velcro-like polymer grabs proteins without needing a traditional binding pocket. Polymers also grab the cell’s waste-disposal machinery, bringing it to the protein. Strategy worked in cellular cultures and animal models of cancer for two notoriously undruggable proteins.
Small fragments of plastic were found in nine out of 10 patients with prostate cancer, and in higher levels inside tumors than in nearby noncancerous tissue, a new study finds.