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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. Scary by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Maybe I've got an evil side that sees the bad in things, but this reminds me of several stories where individuals are targeted based on their DNA. Seems like a small step from this to a poison that only activates in people with a specific DNA sequence...

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