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New cancer Achilles heel: cell membrane ‘copper pump’

human copper transporter, San Diego Biotechnology Connection

UC San Diego researchers discovered that the human copper transporter protein forms a trimer (purple, aqua, and red) in a cell’s membrane, with one end (top) extending outside the cell and the other end (bottom) extending into the cell’s cytoplasm. Image: Igor Tsigelny, San Diego Supercomputer Center...

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Melanoma.Skin Cancer.org, San Diego Biotechnology Connection

FDA gives Ambit Biosciences IND clearance to test new cancer treatment

Melanoma, a cancer in skin cells that make our skin color, is the sixth most common cancer in the U.S., and the number of diagnosed cases is increasing...

Deoxyglucose-induced killing of cancer cells

Small molecule combinations with 2-deoxyglucose kill cancer cells

In cancer cells, 2-deoxyglucose and ABT-263/737 kill cancer cells, leaving health tissues largely unaffected. By Rex Graham In clinical trials of new drugs,...

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