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Re-engineering a protein that helps prevent tumours spreading and growing has created a potentially powerful therapy for people with many different types of cancer. In a study published in the first issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Canadian researchers modified the tumour inhibiting protein, von Hippel-Lindau (VHL), and demonstrated that it could suppress tumour growth in mice.

Along with information technology, biotechnology is the greatest motivator for global economic development in the 21 century. It is maturing into the leading technology that may reshape the pattern of future industry as well as economy. Following up biotechnology's continuously building itself, antibody engineering, the main force of biotechnology industrialization, has earned itself an important place in this field, bio-pharmacy in particular.

It is well known that eating green vegetables, beans, nuts, cereals and fruits prevents cancer, now it is found that beans and wheat bran contains an enzyme inhibitor Inositol // pentakisphosphate which is found to have anti-cancer effects by blocking the action of enzyme Phosphoinositide 3 kinase.