Deuterium in Living Organisms May Provide Clues to Prevent and Treat Cancer
The pharmaceutical industry has been seeking magic bullets to target specific genes and gene products, which continue to produce significant medical and economical challenges via drug failures, narrow range of responders, anecdotal cures claiming false evidence, poor quality of life from severe compound toxicities with enormous and unsustainable treatment costs. Gábor Somlyai PhD, Hungarian molecular biologist, was the first who recognized the biological importance of heavy hydrogen, i.e. deuterium, which can replace hydrogens due to its high concentrations in hydrogen bonding networks with undesired consequences that affect DNA stability in mammalian cells.
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