Virus a potential future cancer drug

IMMUNOLOGY  In a new project, researchers from LIFE – Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen – document that the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) plays a previously unknown dual role in the prevention of a number of cancers. The new findings show that the virus both kills cancer cells and stops the expression of the molecules which certain types of cancer cells produce to hide from the immune system.

 

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