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Nuclear Leukaemia

10 June 2025

Nuclear Leukaemia

The most common genetic fault found associated with the blood cancer acute myeloid leukaemia is a nucleophosmin gene NPM1 mutation. Normal NPM1 activity maintains structures of the cell nucleus called nucleoli, but in NPM1-mutated AML nucleoli are distorted and malfunction, faults which are potential therapeutic targets

Read the published research article here

Written by Lindsey Goff

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