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A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...
Modified Herpes Virus as a Weapon Against Skin Cancer? A new study suggests it might work—even for metastases deep within the ...
Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that ...
Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally. A decade after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first virus-based cancer therapy, ...
One-in-six patients treated with the modified virus as part of a clinical trial saw their tumors disappear completely.
University of Southern California researchers have found a way to rebrand this oft-embarrassing sore subject by genetically modifying HSV-1 and administering it to patients with treatment-resistant, ...
The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two-thirds of the world's population and is generally ...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to ...
New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, published today in ...
New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.