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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. First Post by mary_will_grow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is very interesting. Any other electrical engineers out there wish they had a biology background when they read stuff like this?

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