Tackling a Hard-to-treat Childhood Cancer by Targeting Epigenetic Changes

Monday, November 3, 2008 - 12:21 in Health & Medicine

A very difficult-to-treat child leukemia turns out to be launched by a small but potent epigenetic change that could potentially be reversed relatively easily with drugs: modification of the histones that help package DNA. Blocking the enzyme that does this modification could potentially prevent a variety of cancer-promoting genes from being turned on.

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