Good news! Cancer is history (soon)!
"In a first, Israeli researchers managed to encode a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA molecules and to deliver it directly to cancer cells, causing them to produce the toxin that went on to kill them.
The study ... showed that a single injection into the tumor bed in animal models with melanoma skin cancer led to the disappearance of 44 to 60 percent of cancer cells. ..."
From the abstract:
"Background and rationale: Cancer therapy have evolved remarkably over the past decade, providing new strategies to inhibit cancer cell growth using immune modulation, with or without gene therapy. Specifically, suicide gene therapies and immunotoxins have been investigated for the treatment of tumors by direct cancer cell cytotoxicity. Recent advances in mRNA delivery also demonstrated the potential of mRNA-based vaccines and immune-modulators for cancer therapeutics by utilizing nanocarriers for mRNA delivery.
Methods: We designed a bacterial toxin-encoding modified mRNA, delivered by lipid nanoparticles into a B16-melanoma mouse model.
Results: We showed that local administration of LNPs entrapping a modified mRNA that encodes for a bacterial toxin, induced significant anti-tumor effects and improved overall survival of treated mice.
Conclusions: We propose mmRNA-loaded LNPs as a new class of anti-tumoral, toxin-based therapy. ..."
Lipid nanoparticles-loaded with toxin mRNA represents a new strategy for the treatment of solid tumors (open access)
Graphical abstract
Figure 1 Schematic and microscopic representation of toxin encoding mmRNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles.
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