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Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, have found a way to rein in a protein responsible for making the majority of human cancer cases worse. What the researchers discovered is a peptide compound that binds to the protein and suppresses its activity. To deliver this peptide into cells, the researchers used lipid nanoparticles.
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