A diverse team of scientists from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an experimental treatment that eradicates an acute type of leukemia in mice without any detectable toxic side effects. The drug works by blocking two important metabolic pathways that the leukemia cells need to grow and spread.The study, led by Dr. Caius Radu, associate professor of the biomedical physics interdepartmental program and molecular & medical pharmacology, and Dr.

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