Current Affairs New drug might prove to be a breakthrough in the fight against cancer

02-05-2007 16:02 | Daniela Lazarová

Last week the US company Gilead Sciences announced that - in cooperation with the Prague Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry - it had developed a new drug that might prove to be a breakthrough in the fight against cancer. The drug - labeled GS9219 - has shown fantastic results in the first phase of testing on animals. We called the head of the Czech research team professor Zdenek Havlas to find out more about this revolutionary discovery.

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