Scientists have long explored using viruses to fight cancer, however that doesn’t work nicely for metastatic cancers (that’s, people who have spread beyond the primary site) when your immune system will rapidly neuter perceived threats. There might, however, be an answer. A staff of Case Western Reserve and Emory researchers has modified human adenovirus to create a “stealth” weapon against metastatic cancers. Key mutations and protein changes reduce the probabilities of the immune system deactivating the virus, trapping it within the liver, or producing a harmful inflammatory response.
The strategy wouldn’t only be safer however would spare doctors from having to deliver viruses directly to tumor sites and will treat more than simply the main tumor. It could possibly be reworked for various kinds of cancer and even include genes and proteins that foster cancer immunity.
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