Re: Smart Virus Eliminates Brain Cancer In Animal

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 13:16:08 MDT

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    On Wed, 7 May 2003 10:41:37 -0400, John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:

    > can completely eradicate brain tumors in mice, while leaving normal brain
    > tissue alone!
    >
    > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030507080912.htm
    >

    This is very interesting stuff. Worth noting that the specific glioma
    targeted in this work is one that is not believed to metastasize. But a
    virus that is tuned to only attack malignancies sounds like a very powerful
    approach. 

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