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Modified viruses devour leukemia cells

A virus in the rabies family can be used to successfully cure leukemia in lab mice. Disease bad boys like viruses may be the next big step forward in cancer treatment. Researchers from the Ottawa Hospital Research...

3 September, 2013

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Human trials using a leukaemia virus to fight advanced skin cancer are on track to start in Adelaide later this year

In a national first, researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Centre for Cancer Biology intend to tweak the body’s own defensive cells to target cancer by genetically engineering them into search and...

15 August, 2013

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