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Selenium enzyme shows promise as cancer therapy

14:01 EST 14 Feb 2018 | ecancermedicalscience

A study published in Science Translational Medicine shows that small molecules that specifically inhibit an important selenium-containing enzyme may be useful in combating cancer. When researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden treated cancer in mice...

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