The chemists, led by Professor Peter Scott at the University of Warwick, UK, have been able to produce molecules that have a similar structure to peptides which are naturally produced in the body to fight cancer and infection.<br><br>Published in Nature Chemistry, the molecules produced in the research have proved effective against <a href="http://phys.org/tags/colon+cancer+cells/">colon cancer cells</a> in laboratory tests, in collaboration with Roger Phillips at the Institute for Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford, UK.<br><br><a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-08-self-assembling-anti-cancer-molecules-minutes.html">READ MORE ON PHYS.ORG</a><br><br>Asymmetric triplex metallohelices with high and selective activity against cancer cells, Nature Chemistry, <br><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2024">DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2024</a><br>
