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Tailor-Made Cancer Drugs

Posted by michael on from the needle-and-thread dept.

pmineiro writes "A researcher at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a method for delivering an inactive drug complex into the body, which is only activated by certain messenger RNA sequences. This allows a drug to be selectively activated only in certain cellular contexts, e.g., cancer or HIV infection."

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  1. Re:Scary by joto · · Score: 1, Funny
    Yup. It would be the most efficient way of eradicating jews forever. As we all know, jews are a matrilineal society, and thus they all share some common genes.

    I only wish Hitler was still alive to see his dream come true.

    (Yes, this is a joke...)