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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Leukaemia Cells

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Treating acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells with the drug CX-5461 disrupts the nucleolar ribosome machinery shown by the fibrillarin protein (green) in the nucleus (blue) that stimulates the nucleolar stress response and initiates leukaemia cell death. Credit: Peter Mac 

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