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Sep 2016
Gene-editing tool brings new cancer hope
Scientists have stunted tumour growth in mice through a gene-editing method, which replaces harmful DNA with a new code, killing cancerous cells and leaving healthy ones unharmed.
The tested mice that were given the new code (Crispr-Cas9) developed much smaller tumours than the cancers in mice that had not received this treatment.
Experts have said that, whilst the study was promising, it was unclear as to whether the treatment would be successful in humans.
Dr Chris Lord of the Institute of Cancer Research and an expert in genes, said “The key to translating this method into the clinic will be to see how specific to the tumour cell the Crispr activation will be and how specific, in terms of genes, the Crispr-mediated gene cutting will be.
“These are essentially the same two issues you have with all cancer treatments – how specific for the tumour cell and how specific for the target.”
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