Breast Cancer
Structure of key receptor determined
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 6th, 2003
The scientists also figured out how the receptor, known as HER2, interacts with an antibody, sold as Herceptin, that is used to treat thousands of breast cancer patients each year.
"Now we know exactly which building blocks of the Herceptin antibody interact with which building blocks of HER2," said Dan Leahy, PhD, professor of biophysics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, writing in Nature. "When you understand the...
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