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Scientists program human cells to act as biological computers for cancer targeting

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechRadar ·

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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