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Article: MODIFIED GENE TARGETS CANCER CELLS 1,000 TIMES MORE OFTEN
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 18, 2008
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Lalit K. Jha
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Washington, Dec. 18 -- (IANS) Researchers have designed a gene that is a thousand times more effective against cancer cells than healthy cells. The findings may help address the prime challenge in anti-cancer therapy: improving treatments' ability to specifically and effectively target cancer cells.
Using this new approach, scientists should be able to insert "self-destruct" codes into the modified gene, forcing cancer cells to kill themselves while healthy cells remain largely unaffected.
Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov, both assistant professors of biology at the University of Rochester and graduate ...