From the "Nerds are always coming up with cool ideas" files:

Stanford Cancer Institute scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct Inspector Gadget style. 

“The idea is, Can you turn a cancer dependency into a cancer-killing signal?” asked Nathanael Gray, PhD, co-senior author with Crabtree, the Krishnan-Shah Family Professor and a chemical and systems biology professor. “You take something that the cancer is addicted to for its survival and you flip the script and make that be the very thing that kills it.”

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/10/protein-cancer.html
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