Scientists create new process to 'program' cancer cell death

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 22:28 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. The process uses small RNA molecules that can be programmed to attack only specific cancer cells; then, by changing shape, those molecules cause the cancer cells to self-destruct.

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