SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – Gene editing has helped to advance discoveries for cures of diseases like cancer. Now, using genetic tools to manipulate cells has hopeful indications for doctors and patients.
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Dr. Julia Carnevale is an assistant professor at UCSF School of Medicine who treats people with gastrointestinal cancer. Her work involves persistent cell targeting to knock out cancer growth.
Instead of chemotherapy or radiation therapy, Carnevale's work enters the space of "living therapy." "The area that I'm most focused on is cell therapy, which essentially involves taking cells most commonly out of the patient, engineering them, so kind of rewiring them, in the laboratory and then giving them back to the patients," she explained to KCBS Radio's "As Prescribed."
Once back in the body, the cells are then able to eradicate any tumor cells. Carnavale's work also has implications for other cancer treatments.
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