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'Engineered anti-cancer virus' shows promise

An engineered virus, injected into the blood, can selectively target cancer cells throughout the body in what researchers have labelled a medical first.

The virus attacked only tumours, leaving the healthy tissue alone, in a small trial on 23 patients, according to the journal Nature.

Researchers said the findings could one day "truly transform" therapies.

BBC Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14730608

More advanced Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v477/n7362/full/nature10358.html

There's a lot of buzz about this, many think that in the near future this could become a medical breakthrough of huge magnitude.

Living in the future is awesome! :biggrin:

Reply 1

Aj12

This was how I am legend started....

But on a less end of the world, note sounds good

Reply 2

RyanT

Fantastic, nice transitory tech before we can get nanites. Can't wait, hopefully it can be done cheap enough to benefit a lot of people as well :smile:

Original post by Aj12

This was how I am legend started....

But on a less end of the world, note sounds good

I don't mind, I'd quite like to live out the I am legend storyline. Just need to know in advance when to lock the windows so I don't fall in the first wave.

Reply 3

Aphotic Cosmos

Well it's about time.

Now can we please start to focus on Alzheimers, Dementia, Parkinson's, Hutchinson's, et al?

Reply 4

Squidgyness

Original post by Aj12

This was how I am legend started....

But on a less end of the world, note sounds good

Damn! You got there first :P

I welcome this advance. However, perhaps we should stock up on canned goods and shotguns just in case? In case some kind of super-cancer develops that can chase and infect people...

I have an over-active imagination....