Arsenic-based Therapy Shown To Help Eradicate Leukemia-initiatin...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 05/12/2008 - 12:30

In a paradoxical discovery, scientists have found that a tumor suppressor protein known as PML appears to be the factor that enables leukemia initiating cells to maintain their quiescence -- the inert state that protects them from being destroyed by cancer therapies.


 

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