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Caption: Peter Sicinski, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have safely shut down breast cancer and a form of leukemia in mice by targeting abnormal proteins that control cells' growth cycles, and to which the cancers are "addicted."
Credit: Sam Ogden
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