DNA Testing Discovery – Top Life-Threatening Diseases Share Genes
A research team at Harvard Medical School had found that most of the 343 genes which were implicated in cancer have already been implicated in metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease and other life-threatening diseases by using basic bioinformatics techniques.
Based on The Scientist:
As a crude test of that idea, the team tested drugs for other diseases — including metformin (diabetes), celecoxib (arthritis), and simvastatin (atherosclerosis) — against cancerous cells. “If all these diseases have some common pathways, then drugs against these diseases should also work against cancer,” said Struhl. Eleven out of thirteen drugs inhibited cancer development in the cell lines.
via The Scientist