Newswise — In the midst of the New York World Science Festival’s memorial celebration of beloved neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, scientists report on progress against the rare cancer that caused his death. New research has uncovered a drug that can slow eye cancer in mice. The drug is made against a protein newly discovered as being important for relaying the cancer’s deadly message within the cell. The results could make possible new treatments for a cancer that is difficult tough to beat.
Dean Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, co-led the multi-institutional study, published in Cancer Cell, and is available for comment.
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