Friday 28 February 2020

A chemotherapy missile made of DNA target-locks on to cancer cells

A chemotherapy missile made of DNA target-locks on to cancer cells

DNA is the repository for genetic information. We’ve been tinkering with it since the 1970s, trying to alter the characteristics of organisms in a single generation, like boosting crop resistance to insect pests or even making pigs glow. Only recently have researchers popularized DNA as something else: a construction material. Earlier this year, researchers assembled an intelligent and autonomous nanostructure entirely out of DNA that delivered and released a cancer drug.

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