With new ‘elegant chemo,’ Israeli scientists edit genome to destroy cancer DNA – The Times of Israel

Israeli scientists say they have destroyed cancerous cells in mice with a method so pinpointed its 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…

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