An ingredient in the venom of the “deathstalker” scorpion could help gene therapy become an effective treatment for brain cancer, scientists are reporting. The substance allows therapeutic genes – genes that treat disease – to reach more brain cancer cells than current approaches, according to the study in ACS Nano, a monthly journal. Miqin Zhang and colleagues note that gene therapy – the delivery of therapeutic genes into diseased cells – shows promise for fighting glioma, the most common and most serious form of brain cancer… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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