Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells.

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Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. The first hit destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body, according to a report in Chemical Biology. Nathan Luedtke, professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and his colleagues...