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Malaria drug slows pancreatic cancer growth in mouse models


Thanks to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for this article.

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becca
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Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:45 pm CDT

Didn't they just take anti-cancer drugs targeting ERK and use them in malaria?


Brian Krueger, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center
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Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:48 pm CDT

There's this paper from 2009 if that's what you mean?

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000366


becca
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Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:52 pm CDT

 

No. Luckhart's lab is awesome. However, I mean this http://www.labspaces.net/109461/Malaria_s_weakest_link

 


Brian Krueger, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center
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Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:54 pm CDT

Good memory!

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