SINCE the introduction of nitrogen mustard, methyl-bis-β-(chloroethyl)-amine, or HN 2 (Fig. 1), as a therapeutic agent in human cancer a number of analogues and related alkylating agents have been ...
In a previous phase 3 trial of adjuvant chemotherapy after resection of non–small-cell lung cancer, a combination of uracil and tegafur (often referred to as UFT) taken orally was shown to prolong ...
NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ...
Samples from the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa2 mission contain nitrogenous organic compounds, including the nucleobase uracil, which is a part of RNA. Researchers have analyzed samples of ...
Oncolytic virus CF33-hNIS monotherapy for the treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract ...
Our bodies could be inducing mutations in the COVID-19 virus that activate immune cells to increase the production of pro-inflammatory molecules. Tohoku University scientists have found that human ...