Study: Harmless virus kills some cancers
Six days is all it takes for a common, non-disease-causing virus to kill cervical, breast, prostate and squamous cell cancer cells in laboratory cultures, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. "Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2), which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet...Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery
New phage display technique successful in identifying compounds that show potential to overcome drug resistance In order to better identify compounds that can outmaneuver a virus' effort to mutate and multiply, Gregory Weiss an...CSHL research ties harmless viruses to cancer
Research led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) may link viruses that have been considered harmless to chromosomal instability (CIN) and cancer. "If the model that we propose is correct, protecting the body against viruses, or preventing the cell fusion that they cause may decrease the frequency of cancers and prevent their progression," said CSHL’s lead investigator Yuri Lazebnik. A...Passive smoking may be harmless
Researchers at UCLA suggests that passive smoking does not cause health problems for nonsmokers. Epidemiologists concluded that second hand smoking does not increase the risk for lung cancer and heart disease. An experiment was conducted on more than 35,000 California residents. Those who were part of the study were non-smokers, but their spouses were active smokers. The researchers said they fou...Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus
For the past two years, researchers at Oncolytics Biotech have been developing a harmless virus as a potent cancer killer//, but they have also been accumulating data that suggests in addition to directly killing tumor cells, the reovirus may prime the immune system to mount a separate, powerful and long lasting defence against cancer. Evidence for this theory has been mounting for t...