Measuring the Effects of Drugs on Cancer Cells
(WorldNews Switzerland)

Treating certain breast cancer cells with PARP inhibitors makes it difficult for these cells to replicate their DNA, and they ultimately perish. (Image: Istock.com/ royalitystockphoto). Cancer cells are cells over which the human body has lost control. The fact that they are transformed body cells makes it all the more difficult to combat them effectively - whatever harms them usually also harms the healthy cells in the body. This is why it is important to find out about the cancer cells` particular weaknesses. In certain types of breast and ovarian cancer, for example, such a weakness is given by mutations in...