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Nature Cell Biology 3, E43 - E46 (2001)
doi:10.1038/35055145
Death by design: the big debut of small molecules
Timothy S. Zheng1
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Timothy S. Zheng is at Biogen Inc.,
14 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
02142, USA.
e-mail: timothy_zheng@biogen.com
Abstract
Members of the Bcl-2 family are critical regulators of apoptosis and have become attractive targets for the development of anti-cancer drugs. The latest discovery of small-molecule inhibitors of Bcl-2 proteins may provide the sought-after leads for the development of new anti-cancer therapy

