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CRISPR/Cas9 Reveals Cancer’s Synthetic Lethal Vulnerabilities – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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2017-03-21 NEWS

CRISPR/Cas9 Reveals Cancer’s Synthetic Lethal Vulnerabilities
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system has been used to identify more than 120 synthetic-lethal gene interactions in cancer cells. These interactions could guide drug developers to new combination therapies that could selectively kill cancer cells, and

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2017-03-21 NEWS

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Trial Aimed at Helping Bladder Cancer Patients Choose Immunotherapy or Surgery
Immuno-Oncology News
Patients with bladder cancer often have to choose between surgical removal of their bladder or a three-year course of the immunotherapy Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), which most people know as the tuberculosis vaccine. The two options have never been …

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2017-03-21 NEWS

Immuno-Oncology News

Trial Aimed at Helping Bladder Cancer Patients Choose Immunotherapy or Surgery
Immuno-Oncology News
Patients with bladder cancer often have to choose between surgical removal of their bladder or a three-year course of the immunotherapy Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), which most people know as the tuberculosis vaccine. The two options have never been …