Scientific Breakthrough: We Can Now Halve the Price of Costly Cancer Drug

Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers have now cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled with for 30 years. The breakthrough could halve the price of the drug and make production far more sustainable.

Discovery could slash a common cancer drug's price

"Looking ahead, once we refine the process further, we expect to be able to reduce the cost [of the cancer drug Taxol] by half."

Biosynthetic advance could halve the cost of widely used cancer drug

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled with for 30 years. The breakthrough could halve the price of the drug and make production far more sustainable.

University of Copenhagen Researchers Unveil Biosynthetic Method to Cut the Cost of Taxol and Make Production More Sustainable

University of Copenhagen Researchers Unveil Biosynthetic Method to Cut the Cost of Taxol and Make Production More Sustainable (IN BRIEF) Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have made a breakthrough in the biosynthetic production of Taxol, a widely used chemotherapy drug. By identifying the enzymes responsible for the final steps in the biosynthetic pathway of Taxol, the team has developed a method that enables the drug to be produced i…

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now cracked the code for how they can produce a special cancer drug in a way that can halve the price of the drug. The University of Copenhagen writes this in a press release. The substance taxol, which is used as chemotherapy, is one of the most widely used drugs against breast cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer and lung cancer, but has until now been very expensive to produce. - Taxol has…