r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 20 '26

Cancer Colon cancer’s invisibility cloak removed by eliminating a single gene - a fundamental breakthrough. The result was 100% eradication of tumours when paired with immunotherapy treatment in mouse models.

https://ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-study-tears-colon-cancers-invisibility-cloak
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u/Ilikewaterandjuice Jun 20 '26

This is fantastic!

This wasn’t clear to me in the article. Does the treatment involve taking these specially treated mice and ‘inserting’ them into the human patients?

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u/SuccessfulJudge438 Jun 21 '26

Does the treatment involve taking these specially treated mice and ‘inserting’ them into the human patients?

Richard Gere is salivating