Broccoli Compound May Kill Breast Cancer Cells
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Eat your broccoli. Your mom was right, it’s good for you. An extract found in broccoli can kill breast cancer stem cells, which drive a tumor’s growth, according to researchers at the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. They tested the compound sulforaphane, which is in broccoli and broccoli sprouts, on mice and in human [...]
Could Magnetic Discs Kill Cancer Cells?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Doctors may have discovered an unlikely tool to kill cancer cells. Strange as it sounds, tiny magnetic discs, too small to be seen by the naked eye may be just the thing. When I say small, I mean small. The discs are just 60 billionths of a meter thick. The “nanodiscs” are made of an [...]
