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Portrait of a cancer drug at work

By John Travis

- More than 2 years ago

As researchers seek better drugs for breast cancer, they have a revealing new picture that could guide their way. It shows where the breast cancer drug Herceptin binds to and inhibits the protein HER2 on cancer-cell surfaces.

TAKE THAT! This X-ray–based diagram shows where the breast cancer drug Herceptin binds the cancer-cell protein HER2.