Al's Comment:

 This is brilliant work.  A huge problem we have is that when a patient is diagnosed with having MGMT Unmethylated Glioblastoma, it is much less likely that Temozolomide will help, and they have been shown to have a much shorter survival time.  These researcher figured out a way to convert MGMT unmethylated tumors into MGMT methylated tumors, using a viral delivery of CRISPR.  It is still only pre-clinical but a new approach that should help a lot!


Posted on: 01/16/2024

dCas9/CRISPR-based methylation of O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase enhances chemosensitivity to temozolomide in malignant glioma

 


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