CRISPR-Cas9 can destroy cancer cells using nanoparticle delivery

A recent paper, published in Science Advances, from scientists at Tel Aviv University (Israel) has demonstrated how the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system – recognized by this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry – can be delivered to cancer cells in mice to cut their DNA, effectively destroying the cell. "This is the first study in the world to prove that the CRISPR genome editing system can be used to treat cancer effectively in a living animal," commented Dan Peer (Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine at the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at Tel Aviv University), whose laboratory conducted the research....