While Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists were doing research to increase the size of peaches and nectarines grown on a tree, they discovered a protein with the ability to stop cancer. For example, if you reduce the number of peaches that grow on a peach tree, the fruit that do grow will be bigger in size. Same with the nectarines. The scientists were researching a protein that inhibits the growth of pollen cells to accomplish the reduction in the number of fruit per tree. When the experiments succeeded, it came to them that the same protein, and the same process, might work in stopping the growth and spread of cancer because the fruit pollen cell works very similar to how a cancer cell works.
According to the university, the scientists used genetic engineering to produce a variant of the protein that shows impressive anti-cancer potential. Not surprisingly, this discovery is said to have caught the attention of the international scientific community and the business community.
