WASHINGTON – A research team that includes a Japanese professor at the University of Chicago has shown that a drug being developed in Japan can eradicate lung cancer cells, according to a study published in the U.S. medical journal Science Translational Medicine.
According to the study, the research team found that the drug, which is called OTS964 and is being developed by a startup company outside of Tokyo, helped eliminate human lung cancer tumors transplanted into mice, by inhibiting the activity of a specific protein.
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