Medication protects fertility and defense system during chemotherapy

(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) Researchers found the potent humanin analogue protected male germ cells, which are essential to fertility, and white blood cells, which are the soldiers in the body's defense system, during chemotherapy. They also reported that HNG reduced metastases, or the spread of cancer cells to other organs in the body.