It took advantage of X-ray crystallography that charted the precise three-dimensional structure of how Gleevec binds to Bcr-Abl.

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The first being that you need to repeat this over and over during the treatment, very much like BCR-ABL. The second being that this technique has incredible low upstream and downstream processing and goes directly for the target.

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