Mayo Clinic Collaboration Invents ''Virus In Stealth'' To Help Kill Cancer Cells
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:00 AM EST
... Mayo Clinic researchers working with colleagues in Germany have discovered a way to fight cancer by using parts of a virus found in tree shrews, small Southeast Asian mammals. The researchers used the virus to create a disguise for an engineered measles virus that enables it to sneak past the immune system. It kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells. ...
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