Scientists have developed a new therapy for the treatment of skin and lung cancer. This therapy, developed by at the University of Granada researchers, involves the use of a suicide coliphage-gene (gene E) that can induce death to cells transfected with it. Their studies have demonstrated that this technique is not only effective in vitro (using tumour cell cultures), but also in vivo through the use of experimental animals in which tumours were induced. This is an experimental technique that could be used in clinical tests in the future. This new therapy was also tested on the lung adenocarcinoma A549 line. Then, they studied how these genes affect cell proliferation -both in vitro and in vivo experiments- and their mechanism of action.
This new therapy for the finding of lung and skin cancer can be very good to people who have this disease. It sounds as if these experiments are going very well and i think that they will find something for it later in life. In the future when genetic therapies allow to improve the controlled expression of these genes in tumor cells and reduce the risks involved in their clinical use.
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