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