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Scientists program human cells to act as biological computers for cancer targeting
Researchers at Hebrew University have engineered human cells to perform biological computations, enabling them to autonomously detect and respond to disease signals. The technique uses RNA trans-splicing to reprogram cells to target cancer internally. This approach could lead to future medicines designed like software, with programmable cellular responses.
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While promising, the leap from lab-engineered cells to viable cancer therapies remains vast, and safety hurdles in human trials are significant.
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'Future medicines may be designed much like software' — How scientists programmed human cells to compute like tiny processors and target cancer using RNA trans-splicing →
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