The result was a totally unexpected treatment. Genetics researchers at Washington University, one of the world’s leading centers for work on the human genome, were devastated. Dr. Lukas Wartman, a young, talented and beloved colleague, [...]

The researchers showed that thioridazine kills leukemia stem cells without affecting normal blood stem cells   An anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia appears to get rid of cancer stem cells by helping them differentiate [...]

A compound that could pack an anti-leukemic punch A novel anti-leukemia compound with little toxicity successfully treated zebrafish with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), suggesting its potential to become a new highly targeted therapy for [...]

Retinoids have already transformed one rare type of fatal leukemia into a curable disease An antidepressant combined with a drug derived from vitamin A could be used to treat a common adult form of leukemia, [...]

New Hybrid Aspirin Shrinks Tumors, Curbs Cancer Cell Growth The humble aspirin may soon have a new role. Scientists from The City College of New York have developed a new aspirin compound that has great [...]

Cellceutix believes it has found the Holy Grail in cancer research   . . . a compound that activates a tumor suppressor protein known as p53, long regarded as possibly holding the key to future [...]

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and five other institutions have used an unconventional approach to cancer drug discovery to identify a new potential treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). As reported in Nature [...]