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Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short ...

Drug-delivering aptamers that can precisely target leukemia stem cells with enhanced potency have been developed. Delivering anticancer drugs with specificity and potency to cancer stem cells is an ...

A graphic showing, top to bottom, how DNA aptamers target two specific markers on a leukemia stem cell’s surface, enter the cell and deliver anticancer drugs, resulting in death of the cancer cell.