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Published online 22 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010524-9
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Virus crosses brain cancer
Blending the common cold and polio viruses may have created a brain cancer therapy.
What do you get if you cross the common cold virus with the polio virus? A precision tool for excising a virtually untreatable form of brain cancer, researchers told this week's American Society of Microbiology's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
The viral chimaera targets the most common, and fatal, form of brain cancer, malignant glioma.
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