GENE-IUS DISCOVERY: Drug Turns Cancer Gene Into 'Eat Me' Flag For Immune System

Picture shows microscopy of a lung tumour biopsy, undated.  UC San Francisco researchers have developed a drug that  marks cancer cells for destruction by the immune system in California, USA.  Note: Licensed photo.  (Lin Ma, UC San Francisco/Newsflash) Picture shows microscopy of a lung tumour biopsy, undated. UC San Francisco researchers have developed a drug that marks cancer cells for destruction by the immune system in California, USA. Note: Licensed photo. (Lin Ma, UC San Francisco/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Lin Ma, UC San Francisco/Newsflash

15 September 2022
San Francisco researchers have achieved promising pre-clinical results by developing a drug that red-flags cancer genes marking them for destruction by the immune system. The boffins from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the USA, pulled a mutated version of the KRAS...