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Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin (article from 4.07.2023)

phys.org Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin

For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.

Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin

For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.

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