OxaliTEX (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

OxaliTEX

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The drug candidate, called OxaliTEX, is made of two parts: a star-shaped molecule (blue) called texaphyrin that acts like a kind of delivery truck and a modified version of a platinum drug (red) that acts like a toxic package for cancer cells.

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