By quelling a mutant enzyme that can induce bone marrow cells to proliferate wildly, four new drugs stop a deadly form of leukemia in mice. Three of the drugs are now being tested in people who have acute myeloid leukemia, a lethal blood cancer, and plans are under way to start a trial of the fourth.
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