Biological Clock May Offer Treatment for Prostate Cancer by Karishma Abhishek on January 16, 2021 at 2:44 PM
All our body s natural rhythms of light and dark are synchronized by our biological or circadian clock. Disrupting this clock might simply bring all the process to halt. This may even lead to prostate cancer - second leading cause of cancer death for men in the U.S. One of the clock genes CRY-1 is found to be involved in prostate cancer progression, as per the research at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer - Jefferson Health (SKCC) published in the journal Nature Communications. When we analyzed human cancer data, the circadian factor CRY-1 was found to increase in late stage prostate cancers, and is strongly associated with poor outcomes. However, the role of CRY-1 in human cancers has not been explored , says Karen Knudsen, MBA PhD, executive vice president of oncology services for Jefferson Health and enterprise director of SKCC, and senior author
welcome back, everyone. scientists have successfully edited a genetic mutation from a human a embryo in a groundbreaking first. they say in their study published in the journal nature they used a technique to remove the disease causing genes. now the embryo s dna repair mechanism then replaced the missing genes with a copy from the parent without the mutation. researchers found that the harmful gene was corrected in more than 70% of the embryos. now scientists hope their work could one day help them remove genetic diseases from children before they re born. but critics worry the technique could be used to create babies with specific traits. now juan carlos belmonte joins us now from spain. he is a professional at the salk institute for biological studies and a co-author of this study.