Thursday 23 May 2019

Using genetically modified fruit flies to find the best cancer therapies

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, has found that it is possible to use genetically modified fruit flies to find the best cancer therapies for some patients. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes experiments that involved genetically altering fruit flies with a patient's cancer mutations as a way to test therapy candidates.

* This article was originally published here