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 an...Harmless Virus May Be Deadly to Breast Cancer
... reovirus seeks out and destroys tumor cells, researchers sa...Canadian researchers report. "We suspected that reovirus might be effective against cancer stem cells, beca...id. Lee noted that he and his colleagues tested reovirus on fresh breast cancer tissue removed from a patie...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center opens patient trial of virus that attacks brain cancer cells
...inated by the body within two weeks. But while the reovirus (respiratory enteric orphan virus) may be harmless...Ras pathway) that controls key cell functions. The reovirus is able to infect and kill cancer cells that have ..., developed a therapeutic drug, REOLYSIN, from the reovirus and are conducting multicenter clinical trials for...Common Virus Enhances Cancer-Fighting Ability of Standard Chemotherapy Drugs
...chemotherapy drugs. In general, the combination of reovirus with cisplatin, gemcitabine, mitomycin or vinblast...ar interest to the researchers, the combination of reovirus and paclitaxel, a common chemotherapy drug, was un...reovirus. The data suggest that the combination of reovirus and paclitaxel may help in promoting cell-death si...Cancer-Killing Viruses Employ Multiple Mechanisms
... recently however, it has been discovered that the reovirus may also have the potential to prime the body’s ow... “We’ve understood the mechanism of action of reovirus replication in cancer for a number of years,” expl...irus was gone.” Immunologic work now suggests that reovirus exposure is “educating” the immune system to recog...Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. announces publication of research
...mor efficacy and safety of various combinations of reovirus and cyclophosphamide in vivo. The paper, entitled...cutaneous Tumors following Intravenous Delivery of reovirus appears online in the January 1, 2008 issue of Cli...or, to enhance the delivery and replication of the reovirus when delivered intravenously. After testing vario...Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch
... in human clinical trials. Oncolytics' proprietary reovirus formulation, Reolysin®, is active against numerous...ttsdale, Arizona, several presentations focused on reovirus efficacy alone or in combination with standard che...nvestigators examined the tumor-killing ability of reovirus plus cisplatin, a standard chemotherapy agent, in ...Oncolytics Biotech(R) Inc. Announces Reovirus Research to be Presented at AACR Annual Meeting
CALGARY, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY ) announced today that abstracts covering research with reovirus (REOLYSIN(R)) are available on the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) website at www.aacr.org , and on the Oncolytics website ...Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Collaborators to Present Reovirus Research at ASGT Meeting
CALGARY, May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) announced today that two presentations covering preclinical work using the reovirus are scheduled to be delivered by Dr. Richard Vile of the Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, at the American...Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Gene Therapy Publication on Reovirus Treatment for Melanoma
CALGARY, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that Prof. Alan Melcher and his research group at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, U.K. published the results of their work in the April 10 online issue of Gene The...Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Collaborators to Present Reovirus Research at AACR Annual Meeting
CALGARY, March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) announced that two abstracts covering preclinical work with reovirus are available today on the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) website at http://www.aacr.org, and on the Oncolytics we...