Kill Cancers with Viruses?

Viruses can be modified to seek out and destroy cancer cells, scientists said today. Laboratory tests at Leeds University have shown how proteins can be added to a virus to enable it to recognise unique markers on the surface of tumours.

Campaign and research groups believe the development could benefit patients and lead to treatments tailored to different diseases. They say the findings show a method of delivering gene therapy more efficiently and individually to the cancers they are intended to treat.

Now the researchers are hoping to move from the laboratory and begin human testing.…

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