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Uploaded by on Oct 15, 2010

This brief video actually is a five-hour time-lapse series of images of dynamic microtubules at the periphery of a human breast cancer cell. It's part of the research by scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara who have discovered the mechanism by which the drug maytansenoid kills cancer cells.

Read more at http://www.futurity.org.

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  • Christmas Trees Cure Cancer?

    Maytansine, a powerful new drug derived from an evergreen tree may soon aid patients with the most devastating form of breast cancer.

    Who knew Christmas tree might cure cancer?

    When linked to a tumor-targeting antibody, it inhibits the dynamics of microtubules at the periphery of human breast cancer cells, ultimately killing them.

    Early clinical trials with metastatic breast cancer show that the drug shrank the tumors of one-third of the patients in the study.

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