Self-produced bacterial toxin induces cancer cells to ‘commit suicide’
Researchers 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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