Virotherapy

I recently ran across an article describing virotherapy. Nicoletta Lanese, a Live Science contributor gave information on the early days of virotherapy and how it works.

Some of the viruses have a natural preference for attacking tumors and now the scientists are developing them into promising cancer treatments. This has been known for over a century but has only made advancements in genetic engineering to enable viruses to become a viable cancer therapy, with the hopes that this treatment will someday go viral.

Viruses prefer to attack the cancerous tissues rather than healthy ones so oncolytic virotherapy is taking advantage of …read more