Protein 'handbrake' halts leukemia in its tracks

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 15:19 in Biology & Nature

Melbourne researchers have showed that they can stop leukemia in its tracks by targeting a protein that puts the handbrake on cancer cell growth.The researchers discovered that targeting a protein called Hhex could cure acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in preclinical disease models, and could be a key target for new therapies for human leukemia.

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