[Reader-list] RSS-developed cancer drug gets US patent

[Pawan Durani]

So ?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for posting this Pawan. You might be interested to the other side of
> the story as well.
>
> http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/65586/48030
>
> About a month and a half later, the media splashed the news that the
> United States Patent and Trade Office had granted Patent No 6410059 to an
> "Indian innovation which has proved that cow's urine can make
> antibiotics, anti-fungal agents and also anti-cancer drugs more
> effective" (The Hindu 4 July 2002). The product, cow-urine distillate
> (CUD), was the result of a joint enterprise by the centrally funded
> Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Vishwa
> Hindu Parishad's Go-Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra (cow science research centre)
> in Nagpur. Seems Murli Manohar Joshi, union minister for science and
> technology as well, notorious for introducing 'vedic astrology' and reviving
> Sanskrit courses in universities, had asked the Centre for Science and
> Industrial Research in 1999 to investigate the chemical properties of cow's
> urine. According to The report published in Indian Express (4 July 2002), 10
> lakh rupees were spent over three years by the Central Institute of
> Medicinal and Aromatic Plants at Lucknow to establish that "certain
> compounds in cow urine, when used in combination with certain antibiotics
> like the commonly used anti-tuberculosis drug rifampicin, can help kill more
> bacteria than a single application of the antibiotic".
>
> Regards
>
> Anupam
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-developed-cancer-drug-gets-US-patent/articleshow/6058657.cms
>>
>> <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-developed-cancer-drug-gets-US-patent/articleshow/6058657.cms>
>> NAGPUR: An anti-cancer drug extracted from cow urine and developed by an
>> affiliate of the RSS has got a US patent for the third time for its
>> anti-genotoxicity properties, a senior official has said.
>>
>> The drug developed by RSS-backed Go Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra had earlier
>> got
>> the US patent as a bio-enhancer with antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs.
>>
>> The research for the drug brand named 'Kamdhenu Ark' was carried out
>> jointly
>> by the Anusandhan Kendra and National Environmental Engineer Research
>> Institute (NEERI), Acting Director of NEERI Tapan Chakraborty said.
>>
>> The research found that Re-distilled Cow Urine Distillate (RCUD) was
>> useful
>> for protecting and repairing DNA from oxidative damage, Chakraborty and
>> Sunil Mansinghka of Kendra told reporters yesterday.
>>
>> Oxidative DNA damage is a leading cause of ageing, cancer and other
>> diseases.
>>
>> RCUD works against genotoxicity, a harmful action on a cell's genetic
>> material, they said, adding research has strengthened the efficacy of
>> 'Kamdhenu Ark' as an anti-cancer drug.
>>
>> The research was carried out on three patients, two of them having throat
>> and uterus cancer, Mansinghka said.
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