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Avocados may help beat leukemia

  Adding to the benefits of avocados, scientists have found that the nutritious fruit may hold the key to beating deadly leukemia. University of Waterloo Professor Paul Spagnuolo has discovered a lipid in avocados that combats acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by targeting the root of the disease – leukemia stem cells. Worldwide, there are few drug treatments available to patients that target leukemia stem cells. AML is a devastating disease […]