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Dr. Yardena Samuels on Targeting Pathways Instead of Proteins in Melanoma
Author(s)Yardena Samuels, PhD
Yardena Samuels, PhD, on the ineffectiveness of targeting a single gene of proteins in patients with melanoma. Samuels says this strategy may work for the short term for treatment, but patients would tend to develop a resistance much quicker to treatment strategies using this method.
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Yardena Samuels, PhD, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, discusses the ineffectiveness of targeting a single gene of proteins in patients with melanoma. Samuels says this strategy may work for the short term for treatment, but patients would tend to develop a resistance much quicker to treatment strategies using this method.
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