Our body has a function of protection against a variety of life-threatening conditions. However, in some cases, our reserves are insufficient. For example, in the fight against oncology. At the same time, science knows cases when already the most advanced stage of the disease receded and the person was cured, although even the most powerful methods of therapy did not work anymore. This made scientists think that there are still internal methods of struggle, but they could not be found. And it is quite possible that scientists from Chicago managed to do this, who discovered the "cancer killing code" right in our cells.
EurekAlert writes about the new study by experts from Northwestern University in Chicago. According to the available information, the new way is a genetic code that is embedded in the RNA and micro-RNA of all our cells. According to lead author Marcus Peter, “Cancer can 'adapt' to chemotherapy and radiation therapy, but it can become resistant to the genetic code. As soon as the cell "realizes" that it is mutating into cancer, this code is injected into it in order for it to die."
Research into the new mechanism began in 2017, when Marcus discovered that when some RNA molecules sequenced from normal cells are injected into cancerous tumors, the cancer dies. At the same time, it was revealed that resistance does not develop to this method.
But it was necessary to identify a clear sequence of nucleotides that are responsible for starting the self-destruction mechanism. In the course of further research, Marcus Peter and his team tested 4096 different nucleotide bases in order to identify the most effective against cancer.
Vladimir Kuznetsov
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