Medicine

Monash University

New discovery: dual acting drug delivers blood cancer a lethal ‘one-two’ punch

A collaboration between medicinal chemists, laboratory and clinician-scientists at Monash University and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre developed a single drug that delivers a ‘one-two’ punch to several types of blood cancer in pre-clinical studies and could lead to improved treatments.

Charles Darwin University

New study reveals kill order for melanoma cells by cannabis extract

A cannabis extract has shown positive results in slowing down melanoma cell growth and increasing cell death rates, a new in-vitro study finds.