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This Science News article reports that researchers using a modified adenovirus (that normally causes mild respiratory infections) that only grows in retinoblastoma tumor cells, researchers were able to improve upon (but apparently not cure) the results of cancer drugs in rabbits and mice. Trials in children (where most cases occur) are beginning.
The modified virus was missing a key gene and could only reproduce inside cells in which the retinoblastoma pathway had malfunctioned.
This is an approach to treating cancer I had not heard about before.
The modified virus was missing a key gene and could only reproduce inside cells in which the retinoblastoma pathway had malfunctioned.
This is an approach to treating cancer I had not heard about before.