Organo-metal compound seen killing cancer cells from inside

摘要

Researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, have witnessed -for the first time - cancer cells being targeted and destroyed from the inside, by an organo-metal compound. Professor Peter J. Sadler, and his group in the Department of Chemistry, have demonstrated that organo-osmium FY26 kills cancer cells by locating and attacking their weakest part. This is the first time that an osmium-based compound -which is 50 times more active than the current cancer drug cisplatin - has been seen to target the disease.