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“Most of the time, if you just work with what you have, you’ll probably realize that you have a lot of cute stuff that you didn’t think about before,” Luo said.

Shaojun Stephen Luo of Anaheim Discovery Christian had the low score of the day at 68.

What Luo and Lane had found, however, was a completely different mechanism of action in which the drug might work directly on leukemia cells to stop their growth.

These particular ILs are fairly straightforward to produce and can be easily scaled up for commercialization, said Huimin Luo, a chemist in ORNL's Manufacturing Science Division who led the chemical synthesis work.

However, a trial-and-error approach was not practical, given the immense number of possible combinations, Luo said.