Interesting article worth checking out from McClatchy Newspapers.
Viruses aren't always the bad guys. Sure, they can cause colds, measles, AIDS and other miseries. But with some tinkering, these tiny organisms may become a new and better way to treat cancer.
...researchers are working with a harmless virus that sits in the lungs and intestines of most people. It's called a "reovirus," short for respiratory enteric orphaned virus. A Canadian company, Oncolytics Biotech, fiddles with reovirus genes to produce Reolysin, a virus that attacks a wide variety of cancers.
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