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Sunday, January 29, 2012

media: UNBC Closer To Unique Cancer Drug Research Program - News for Northern/Central Interior British Columbia



"...Dr. Lee says the research will be the first of its kind in Canada - its goal is to develop a method of flagging chemicals that interfere with cancerous activity. Lee has been studying the protein CRD-BP, which is only over-produced in many cancers including: breast, lung, ovarian, colon, and skin cancers. Research at UNBC, and around the world, so far indicates that CRD-BP is associated with cancers because it physically interacts with certain RNA molecules that code for cancer-causing proteins. Dr. Lee and his team hope to find chemical molecules that have the ability to break that interaction....."

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