Engineers create intelligent molecules that seek-and-destroy diseased cells

Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 05:21 in Biology & Nature

Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to recognise diseased cells, leaving the healthy cells alone...

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