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[QUOTE="tD33NAt, post: 2047390, member: 124445"] MIT chemists have developed a new platinum compound that is as powerful as the commonly used anticancer drug cisplatin but better able to destroy tumor cells. The new compound, mitaplatin, combines cisplatin with another compound, dichloroacetate (DCA), which can alter the properties of mitochondria selectively in cancer cells. Cancer cells switch their mitochondrial properties to change the way they metabolize glucose compared to normal cells, and DCA specifically targets the altered mitochondria, leaving normal cells intact...[URL="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bh4lY_6gs9qSXvDM0G2gXxcw_bY/0/da"][IMG]http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bh4lY_6gs9qSXvDM0G2gXxcw_bY/0/di[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bh4lY_6gs9qSXvDM0G2gXxcw_bY/1/da"][IMG]http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bh4lY_6gs9qSXvDM0G2gXxcw_bY/1/di[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/JIqUOUTc-5w[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/JIqUOUTc-5w/173295.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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