‘Elegant Chemo’: Israeli Scientists Edit Genome To Destroy Cancer DNA

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Israeli scientists say they have destroyed cancerous cells in mice with a method so pinpointed it’s as if “tiny scissors” were being used to target only affected cells, while leaving everything around them intact.

“This is the first study in the world to prove that the CRISPR genome editing system, which works by cutting DNA, can effectively be used to treat cancer in an animal,” said Prof. Dan Peer, a cancer expert from Tel Aviv University, after his peer-reviewed research was published in the Science Advances journal.

“There are no side effects, and we believe that a cancer cell treated in this way will never become active again.” He added: “This technology can extend the life expectancy of cancer patients and we hope, one day, cure the disease.”

Peer called it “a more elegant chemotherapy” and said he dreams that it will replace that treatment, which can take a drastic toll on cancer patients because it is administered to the whole body.

Read more at Times of Israel.

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1 COMMENT

  1. There’s no reason to give chemo treatment for cancer nor this DNA changing thing that will cause major problems when they have known and even used for the elite for almost a century hydroxychloroquine which is a well proven drug to cure cancer and quickly.

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