• Question: Do you think the cure for cancer will be found in natural resources(like plants) or do you think it will be man-made?

    Asked by Emily to Josh on 22 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Josh Meyers

      Josh Meyers answered on 22 Jun 2015:


      I don’t think there will be only one ‘cure for cancer’ so it is hard to say. We are moving towards a situation where we have a number of treatment options capable of stopping cancer in its tracks and certainly some of these treatments come from natural sources and others are entirely synthetic.

      Some of the most effective drugs are a fusion between natural and man-made molecules. We find a molecule that exists in plants and change the chemical structure so that it is effective as a drug treatment!

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