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News
12-18-2008, 08:20 AM
Researchers at the University of Rochester have designed a gene that produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells.

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Rich66
12-18-2008, 10:56 AM
""The early results show the new Rad51 killed all of the cancer cells with minimal if any effect on normal cells," says Gorbunova. "We're very excited. The results are much more striking than anything we would have guessed.""

This seems very promising!