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Any molecular biologists here?
To someone with half-baked knowledge on CRISPR, how are they actually getting the CA's enzyme and plasmid into the human cancer cell?
... a creative new CRISPR-based approach can selectively destroy cells carrying a mutation in a tumor suppressor found in nearly half of all cancers and up to 70–90% of cases of some of the most difficult-to-treat cancers, including ovarian, pancreatic, and non-small cell lung cancer.
That sounds pretty amazing. I hope it pans out in real life practice and can become available to patients.
I hope so too. But knowing our timeline, we will end up with zombies instead.
Well that was a good headline given that it started with CRISPR