{
  "id": 8274273,
  "title": "Screening method identifies leukemia drug candidates from more than 4 million compounds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/screening-method-identifies-leukemia-drug-candidates-from-more-than-4",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-18T17:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-screening-method-leukemia-drug-candidates.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A cancer cell behaves differently from a healthy cell, with unique features that enable rapid growth and bypass quality controls. Rice University's Natasha Kirienko is interested in finding these unique features and exploiting them to advance cancer treatments. In a paper recently published in the journal Leukemia, her team used a new screening method to identify drugs that could target these…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}