Cassava enzyme can kill cancers
Certain plants produce deadly cyanide to protect themselves from insect attack, and this poisonous system is now helping to kill cancer cells in humans. The BA Festival of Science was told yesterday about research into a "novel" anti-cancer agent from the cassava plant. Dr Mahendra Deonarain, of the department of biochemistry at Imperial College, London, described how he took the cyanide-producing system from the plant, an enzyme called...