This seems like a pretty stunning result: From David Baker's Journal

We have recently made great progress in designing self assembling materials from proteins and in designing proteins which selectively kill tumor cells. These efforts have benefited tremendously from Rosetta@Home! News releases on these advances are at
http://hsnewsbeat.uw.edu/story/self-assembling-nanomachines-start-click
http://hsnewsbeat.uw.edu/story/computer-designed-protein-causes-cancer-cells%E2%80%99-death

Congratulations to all concerned :-)

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It's unclear if these cancer research websites are related to that discovery:

Synthetic molecule kills cancer cells with salt
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=36893.php

Synthetic ion transporters can induce apoptosis by facilitating chloride anion transport into cells
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.2021.html

Bacterial biosurgery shows promise for reducing the size of inoperable tumors
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=36926.php

Intratumoral injection of Clostridium novyi-NT spores induces antitumor responses
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/249/249ra111

Synthetic molecule makes cancer self-destruct
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=36877.php