Israeli scientists kill cancer cells with ground-breaking DNA-altering treatment they compare to using ‘microscopic scissors’ to target tumors
- Researchers at Tel Aviv University have used CRISPR Cas-9 to kill cancer cells
- The study on mice is first to use the gene editing tool to kill cancer in the body
- Professor Dan Peer said he hopes the treatment will be ready to be administered to humans in two years and will eventually go on to replace chemotherapy
- Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year for creating the gene editing technique used in the study
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