What It Takes To Make a White Blood Cell Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments
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Iowa State researchers identified a protein (progranulin) and cellular signaling pathway that immature leukemia cells need to complete development, pointing toward a possible method for pushing some leukemia cells past the immature state that allows them to persist.
This finding is from laboratory and animal model research; clinical translation remains future research.
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