Test for p53 Needed to Prescreen Blood Cancer Patients (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Test for p53 Needed to Prescreen Blood Cancer Patients

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Death of tumor cells after treatment with protease inhibitors (green). Left, tumor lacking p53, with only fraction of cells killed. Right, tumor producing p53, with massive cell death.

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Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD, University of Pennsylvania; Blood

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