Discovery suggests possible treatment strategy for aggressive leukemias
Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 21:07
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have identified a mechanism that could explain how patients move into the worst phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Their findings implicate a protein called Mushashi that prevents cells from maturing, creating a large population of immature cells, which is one of the hallmarks of CML.