Nisin, a common food preservative, may slow or stop squamous cell head and neck cancers, a University of Michigan study found.
What makes this particularly good news is that the Food and Drug
Administration and the World Health Organization approved nisin as safe
for human consumption decades ago, says Yvonne Kapila, the study's
principal investigator...
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Cancer Survivors With Chronic Dry Mouth Benefit From First Human Gene Therapy Study In Human Salivary Glands
Gene therapy can be performed safely in the human salivary gland,
according to scientists at the National Institute of Dental and
Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of
Health.
This finding comes from the first-ever safety, or Phase I, clinical
study of gene therapy in a human salivary gland. Its results, published...