Medicine & TechnologyA biopharmaceutical company named Amgen had created an experimental drug that can shrink tumors and can prevent more from growing.
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A new drug discovery system allows scientists to specifically target members of an important family of enzymes, called phosphatases, which were previously considered mostly "undruggable".