Spotting a Weakness in the Armor of an Aggressive Lung Cancer (4 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Spotting a Weakness in the Armor of an Aggressive Lung Cancer (4 of 5)

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Small cell lung cancer metastasizing to the liver (red showing small cell lung cancer cells and white showing blood vessels) in a genetically-engineered mouse model. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Li at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "Identification of DHODH as a therapeutic target in small cell lung cancer."

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[Credit: Leanne Li, Koch Institute at MIT]

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