Cancer Cure? Israeli Scientists Think They Found One

(CBS Local) — Israeli scientists claim they may be on the brink of finding the cure for cancer, The Jerusalem Post reports. “We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, chairman of the board of Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd., which is developing the new treatment. The treatment, which they call MuTaTo, or multi-target toxin, acts as a “cancer antibiotic” and uses a combination of cancer-targeting peptides (amino acid chains) and a toxin that specifically kills cancer cells. Most cancer drugs attack a specific target on, or in the cancer cell, said AEBi CEO Dr. Ilan Morad. They fail because that target mutates, changing to divide and spread and avoid attack. But Morad claims MuTaTo “will not be affected by mutations” because the treatment attacks at least three targets at a time. LIFE-SAVING DISCOVERY: A small team of #Israeli scientists think they might have found the first complete cure for cancer. Read more here: @WChildCancer | @AmericanCancer | @Chai_Lifeline | @WeizmannScience | @DanaFarber | @CR_UK https://t.co/q4HV3hzUp4 — The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 29, 2019 “Instead of attacking receptors one at a time, we attack receptors three at a time, Morad told The Jerusalem Post. “Not even cancer can mutate three receptors at the same time.” Morad said MuTaTo is also strong enough to both destroy stem cells and penetrate where other drugs can...
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