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When researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil treated human melanoma cell lines with a synthetic compound similar to curcumin, one of the pigments that give turmeric (Curcuma longa) its orange colour, they identified genes with altered expression in potentially invasive tumours and malignant cells resistant to chemotherapy. According to the scientists, if further studies confirm the importance of these genes to disease progression and increasing chemoresistance, it will be [...]