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Imagine being diagnosed with a glioblastoma, the most common—and deadly—type of brain tumor. Now imagine that with a single injection, your brain cells could be engineered to secrete a protein that would eliminate the tumor...
...team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital recently developed a therapy to suppress brain tumor growth by using a cancer-killing gene delivered via a virus vector to cells surrounding the tumor. Testing their treatment on mice, they said, yielded “spectacular” results...
...goal was to show that if you genetically engineer normal cells within the brain you can actually control the growth of brain tumors,” said Miguel Sena-Esteves, a neuroscience researcher at MGH and one of the authors of the study...
Another benefit of creating a “zone of resistance” is that when the gene is injected in one side of the brain, it can eliminate a tumor on the other, or contralateral, side, according to Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, a pathologist at MGH and another of the study’s authors...
...breakthrough, he said, could eventually improve the treatment of the most advanced types of brain tumors...