High tech meets folk wisdom in recent studies of garlic's chemical composition. S. C. Nair showed in 1991 that production of this enzyme could be stimulated by the chemical diallyl sulfide found in garlic. Garlic may also protect against aging. The oxidation of fatty acids is involved in many disease processes, including cancer.
Science can be beautiful as well as fascinating.
Cast in metal, it would not be out of place in an outdoor sculpture garden. On each section there is a kind of docking station, where a peptide stands ready to deactivate toxins that wanders into the cell's neighborhood. Garlic could even suggest story lines for Deep Space Nine. Scientists have found that stimulating GST may guard against liver cancer, which kills a quarter of a million people around the world every year. But this drug approach brings with it serious side effects, including DNA damage, whereas garlic is, well, just garlic.