Nasopharyngeal Cancer
Finding The Achilles’ Heel
A cancer cell has 20,000 genes, some of which the cell depend upon, some of which are its Achilles’ heel (weakness).
If a cancer cell was a tree and its genes the branches, cutting off a branch wouldn’t kill the tree, just as deleting a gene wouldn’t kill the cancer cell. By using the CRISPR/Cas 9 technology — which is essentially a genetic scissors that enables us to systematically cut out a gene — we will eventually identify the gene that will allow us to cut away the trunk of the tree in order to destroy the cancer.
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