Cancer-killing virus flees immune destruction and attacks metastatic lung tumors in mice
Several viruses have a natural ability to eliminate cancer; however translating them into treatments has proven difficult, partly due to the immune system tends to kill them before they can reach cancer cells. Researchers from Emory and Case Western Reserve state they have got a method to succeed that challenge with a specially engineered virus.
The team took human adenovirus and re-engineered it so the immune system cannot capture it and sent to the liver for destruction, in mouse models of metastatic lung cancer, the virus prolonged survival. About 35% of the animals were ...