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Health News : cancer - News from other sources. | | | | | | | | | Study suggests new ways to maximize delivery of RNA strands Tue, 25 Jun, 2013 10:32 AM PDT Nanoparticles that deliver short strands of RNA offer a way to treat cancer and other diseases by shutting off malfunctioning genes. Although this approach has shown some promise, scientists are still not sure exactly what happens to the nanoparticles once they get inside their target cells. Continue reading | | J&J in $1 billion deal to bolster prostate-cancer focus Tue, 25 Jun, 2013 10:30 AM PDT (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it would pay up to $1 billion for Aragon Pharmaceuticals and its experimental drugs for prostate cancer, to bolster J&J's role in the field after it acquired another experimental prostate-cancer treatment four years ago that has become a leading brand. Continue reading | | | | National Cancer Institute Tue, 25 Jun, 2013 10:17 AM PDT In the past year a group of synthetic proteins called CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have generated great excitement in the scientific community as gene-editing tools. Continue reading | | |