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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – US researchers have discovered a new way to see the effectiveness of anticancer drugs, according to a recent study published in Genome Biology.
The researchers conducted the same studies relating to the survival of certain living cancer cells and did not die with drugs.
According to the website of the "Xinhua" agency, the method is to test the weight of the cancer cell and measure the growth rate, noting that this will reveal the effectiveness of the drug taken by the patient.
The lead author of the study, professor of chemistry at the Mbadachusetts Institute of Technology, "By measuring the cell mbad and its growth rate, we can see whether they respond to the drug or not."
It should be noted that the researchers of this institute invented, earlier, a technique for measuring the mbad of cells and their rate of growth, by weighing repeatedly for short periods.
"We used this technique to see how anti-cancer drugs respond to patients with multiple myeloma, a type of leukemia," said Scott Mbades, professor of bioengineering at the institute.
The researchers found that some cells actually react to the drug, while others resist it.
They currently plan to discover that these "resistance cells" can be targeted by new drugs.
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