Tulsi enters US lab to fight cancer The ubiquitous tulsi in your backyard may be a potent weapon against all kinds of cancer, so believes a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist. Tulsi or basil has eugenol that helps fight cancer. Now the research team is genetically modifying tulsi in the lab to produce the anti-cancerous compound in abundance. When you grind basil leaves, a compound called eugenol comes out. If I could make it produce eugenol in higher amounts, that basil plant would serve as a storehouse of that anti-cancerous compound, said Chandrakanth Emani, assistant professor of plant molecular biology at Western Kentucky University-Owensboro (WKU-O) in the US. In his lab at the Owensboro facility, Emani and his students are genetically engineering the basil to produce more eugenol, a compound in basil that, in his words, has a very great pharmaceutical value because its shown to control breast cancer. Read more: business-standard/article/news-ians/tulsi-enters-us-lab-to-fight-cancer-114011800334_1.html
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:53:55 +0000
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