Katherine Bagley | Nov 10, 2009 | 3 min read
Scientists have developed a new drug that blocks a transcription factor -- previously thought to be un-blockable -- that has been causally linked to leukemia and several other cancers of the lungs, ovaries, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract, they report in linkurl:Nature;http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html this week. Bone marrow smear showing acute lymphoblastic leukemia Image: Furfur, Wikimedia Commons The Notch transcription factor regulates cell-cell communication in the Notch signal