'Imagine the lives this could save': Cervical cancer 'cure' closer with gene-editing breakthrough, researchers say

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Queensland researchers say they can cure cervical cancer in mice using gene editing technology and are now working towards human trials.

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Queensland researchers are hailing a world-first"cure" for cervical cancer, having killed off tumours in mice using CRISPR gene-editing technology.The Griffith University scientists are working towards performing human trials of the gene therapy in the next five years

The scientists used CRISPR-Cas9, a technology for changing the sequence of DNA in cells to correct mutations, to successfully target and treat cervical cancer tumours in mice using"stealth" nanoparticles. The scientists targeted human papillomavirus (HPV)-driven cancers — cervical cancer in this case — and delivered the nanoparticles via injection into live tumour-bearing mice.

Professor McMillan attributed the team's"lightbulb moment of discovery" to inquisitive student Luqman Jubair, a medic from Iraq who, once qualified, wants to work in genetic therapies in Australia.

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no wonder men get so many Nobel Prizes...they do the job!

in mice

We should know more about these scientists who year on year make miraculous breakthroughs for humanity.

BREAKING: President Trump orders halt to 'crooked and nasty' gene-editing measure. Calls breakthrough a 'hoax' that is 'being very unfair' to 'very talented Cancer'.

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