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Scientists turn protein-making errors in cancer cells into a targeted kill switch
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Like every other cell in the human body, cancer cells also produce their own share of proteins for survival. During this production process, cells often encounter a glitch called ribosomal frameshifting. This exceptionally rare event occurs roughly once in every 100,000 translation events, when the ribosome, while reading genetic instructions to make a protein, shifts its reading position. A recent Nature study investigated whether this protein-building glitch in cancer cells can be turned into
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