Anti-Cancer Effects of Enriched Yeast Identified

An essential trace element, selenium acts as an antioxidant to protect cells from the free radical damage that causes aging and is linked to many age-related diseases. Karam El-Bayoumy, from Penn State College of Medicine (Pennsylvania, USA), and colleagues performed proteomic analysis of both regular and selenium-enriched yeast. Finding that selenium-enriched yeast produced a change in 37 proteins, a number of which are involved in the carcinogenesis process, the team urges for preclinical animal models and pilot human clinical trials to ascertain the potential beneficial anti-cancer effects.