Henry Lai, who conducted the study with fellow ... Additional studies are needed to investigate whether the breast cancer prevention property of artemisinin can be generalized to other types ...

Research Professor Henry Lai and assistant research Professor ... then introduce artemisinin to selectively kill the cancer. To accommodate a rate of iron intake greater than normal cells, cancer ...

Earlier work by Henry Lai and Narendra Singh, both UW bioengineers, indicated that artemisinin alone could selectively kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. The new compound ...

It’s highly toxic to the cancer cells, but has a marginal impact on normal breast cells,” researcher Henry Lai said. Chinese healers extracted artemisinin from wormwood thousands of years ago ...

The compounds, all developed through the research of UW scientists Henry Lai and Narendra ... selecting and killing the cancer cells than normal cells," Lai said. "Artemisinin alone is 100 times ...

Sasaki said his co-authors, UW bioengineers Henry Lai and Narendra Singh ... have created their own kind of artemisinin compound to enhance the herb's cancer-killing abilities.

The compounds, all developed through the research of UW scientists Henry Lai and Narendra ... selecting and killing the cancer cells than normal cells," Lai said. "Artemisinin alone is 100 times ...

In the mid-1990s UW researchers were the first to explore its ability to treat cancer ... oxygen with artemisinin you can get a much better curing effect," said author Henry Lai, a UW research ...

SEATTLE, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Some promising cancer-fighting compounds ... research of UW scientists Henry Lai and Narendra Singh, make use of a substance known as artemisinin, found in the wormwood ...

Researchers think artemisinin could be an alternative to more aggressive cancer therapies, with little risk of developing a drug resistance. Cancer cells require iron to divide and multiply.

Artemisinin is a chemical compound in a traditional Chinese herb called Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood. Some research suggests that it may show promise in future cancer treatments. Research ...

Some people believe that artemisinin may be an alternative to more aggressive cancer treatments. While cancer cells often become resistant to most chemotherapy drugs, that doesn’t seem to happen ...