Development of New Cancer Drugs Possible With Gene Mutation

Drugs that block the rapid, unstoppable cell division in cancer that makes it so deadly, could now be possible with the discovery of a gene mutation that causes a rare premature aging disease. Scientists at the University of Michigan and the U-M Health System recently discovered a protein mutation that causes the devastating disease dyskeratosis congenita, in which precious hematopoietic stem cells can't regenerate and make new blood. People with DC age prematurely ...

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