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INVENTIONS: AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

A New Anticancer Agent That Was 6 Decades in the Making

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

What is it: A molecule that interrupts the role that folic acid normally plays in the reproduction of cancer cells.

The market: The molecule has potential for use against a variety of malignant tumors. A drug based on the molecule has already been approved as a treatment for lung cancer,...

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