Recently Australian scientists figured out a way to stop deadly blood cells from growing and hopefully put to an end asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and leukemia. In order to find a cure to this life threatening process, scientists had to identify the protein which causes the damaged blood cancer cells to spread. Their breakthrough innovation led to the start of a medicine to stop the damaged proteins from operating.
The receptor protein is the protein that lies on the surface of the blood cells and controls the way they are spread. Scientists say that they can now invent a drug that can attach to the receptor protein and stop the protein from telling damaged cells to multiply. By using X-ray and synchrotron imaging, scientists were able to build an image of the protein and this will hopefully help them find a way to stop the process of multiplying damaged cells.
The hormone that manages the creation of blood cells attaches to receptor proteins and from there sends a message to blood cells telling them to multiply. When the blood cells are damaged, the message from the protein telling it to multiply causes the cells to over-produce and that leads to asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and leukemia. Researchers figured out that by stopping the damaged cells from reproducing they could also stop the growth.
There is also another drug recently found that can help cells kill blood cancer. This can help fight tumor cells and help prevent tumors. German-U.S. firm Micromet, hopes to have a clinical trial next year to get this drug approved.
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