(Times of Israel) Nathan Jeffay - Israeli scientists have used new technology to destroy cancerous cells in mice that targets 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....Within three treatments we can destroy a tumor. This technology can physically cut the DNA in cancerous cells, and those cells will not survive." Peer called it "a more elegant chemotherapy" and said he dreams that it will replace that treatment.
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