Cancer cells have a “self-homing” ability that allows them to travel through the bloodstream and seek out other cancerous cells of the same type, originating from the same tumor.
This mechanism has been manipulated in the past by modern medicine in order to sneak in camouflaged therapies and deliver them straight to the tumor site, as recently reported by the Inquisitr.
But a group of scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Massachusetts, had a different idea of how to take advantage of this “self-homing” of cancer cells.
In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the team describes an innovative method of using the CRISPR gene-editing tool to design cancer cells that home in on the unsuspecting tumor to unleash a surprise attack.
This ingenious technique uses cancer cells to kill the very tumor that produced them, by employing CRISPR-edited cancerous cells that are engineered to “turn against their own kind,” notes Science Daily.
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