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Japanese cook up cancer-busting synthicurry

Luther Blissett

Curcurcurious 

If the natural compund loses efficacy quickly on ingestion, it is interesting how it was orginally identified as cancer preventing. While the "growth suppressive abilities" (presumably in vitro?) look good at "30 times" the mice results of "42 and 51 percent better" than control are disappointing, i.e. statistically unconvincing. Don't you think?

Anonymous Coward

I wonder if they tried 

Joke

giving mice enemas of the substance thereby bypassing the stomach and small intestine. I want two thousand mice given a curry enema stat.