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Synthetic Lethality

These 2 Startups Are Focused On Fighting Cancer With “Synthetic Lethality”

A new approach is evolving for the treatment of cancer, which, as today’s article explains, involves “discovering pairs of genes whose combined activity is vital to cancer cells, allowing a joint attack to kill tumors in a strategy known as ‘synthetic lethality’”. For a look at two startups focused on finding cancer’s combined weaknesses – and with drug candidates entering…