Normal cells cultured in glassware can be transformed into cancer cells by several viruses. Such "model" systems are studied to find how the virus, with fewer than 10 genes, can produce the change ...

Beheshti’s background is in cancer biology, and he said that as the science on the virus evolved — including studies showing ...

Rare types of cancer are showing up in higher numbers since the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors suspect that the virus itself may be contributing to the higher cancer rates, despite a solid connection ...

Beheshti, whose background is in cancer biology ... as well as if the virus can reawaken dormant cancer cells in mice. The ...

Scientists in China have developed a modified virus found in birds that causes cancer cells to produce sugars the immune system can easily recognize and attack. The experimental therapy was tested ...

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are viruses that infect and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue, making them a promising therapeutic option in cancer ...

Intriguing historical observations that some viral infections can promote cancer remission have led to investigations of the therapeutic potential of oncolytic viruses that replicate, infect and ...

Direct cell lysis is one of two ways CG0070 treats cancer. The other stems from the virus’s expression of granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a powerful immune modulator.

Basal cell carcinomas, the most common form of skin cancer, occur in chronically sun ... TVEC is a genetically modified herpes simplex virus that specifically destroys tumor cells and ...