For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.

For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.

  • mohKohn@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    crisper-cas9!

    Theranostics is a great word.

    Since this seems to rely on the immune system to deliver the therapy anyway, I’m wondering how it’s outperforming whatever mechanism the immune system would use instead.

    • Narrrz@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m guessing immune cells deliver a signal to trigger apoptosis, but cancer cells usually mutate to quash that mechanism or break its function somehow.