Friday, May 22, 2009

Hey, isn't this the set-up for "I Am Legend"?

'Tamed' virus wipes out cancer cells safely

The research team modified a common virus - called an adenovirus - so that it could deliver genetic therapy to destroy tumours without poisoning the liver. The changes enabled the virus to keeps its natural 'infectious' characteristics to replicate in, and kill, cancer cells in mice. But for the first time the virus is also recognised and destroyed by healthy mouse liver cells, so it is no longer toxic.

(Via Futurismic.)


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