Self-Destruction of Glioblastoma

8. Januar 2025

A team of Jülich scientists used a special RNA molecule to specifically attack and destroy glioblastoma cancer cells. The selectively expressed RNA (seRNA) molecules cause the diseased cells to produce a protein that leads to their own programmed cell death.

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Original paper: Selectively expressed RNA molecules as a versatile tool for functionalized cell targeting, Nature Communications, by Frederik Rastfeld, Marco Hoffmann, Sylvie Krüger, Patrick Bohn, Anne-Sophie Gribling-Burrer, Laura Wagner, Nils Hersch, Carina Stegmayr, Lukas Lövenich, Sven Gerlach, Daniel Köninger, Christina Hoffmann, Helene L. Walter, Dirk Wiedermann, Hajaani Manoharan, Gereon R. Fink, Rudolf Merkel, Heribert Bohlen, Maria A. Rueger, Bernd Hoffmann, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55547-6

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