Interesting.....
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,128 ... _tophead_1
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks cancer tumors in mice.
.......The UCLA AIDS Institute scientists genetically altered HIV and folded it into an envelope made of another virus called sindbis, which typically infects insects and birds. That turned the altered HIV into a missile that hunted down metastasized melanoma cells in the lungs of living mice.......
Altered HIV Attacks Mice Tumors
I read this a little earlier today. It's pretty cool. I remember doing a research paper on Hodgkins lymphoma and this was one of the potential treatments that they hoped was (in theory) on the horizon. It looks like they're a couple steps closer. I also spoke with a scientist who studies ways to target cancer cells (he used antibodies to carry drugs to them, not HIV...) and he mentioned the potential of this, too. So, GG to these researchers. :icon14:
I also liked that they noted they won't try this in humans until they have it perfected. That should help keep naysayers down...
I also liked that they noted they won't try this in humans until they have it perfected. That should help keep naysayers down...
I thought antibodies were the way to deliver chemo to the cancercells, but this has definetely potential. Especially in fast-growing hemological cancers with known markers and receptors. Some cancers will remain very difficult to treat for a very long time (like gastric and pancreatic cancer).werldhed wrote:I read this a little earlier today. It's pretty cool. I remember doing a research paper on Hodgkins lymphoma and this was one of the potential treatments that they hoped was (in theory) on the horizon. It looks like they're a couple steps closer. I also spoke with a scientist who studies ways to target cancer cells (he used antibodies to carry drugs to them, not HIV...) and he mentioned the potential of this, too. So, GG to these researchers. :icon14:
I also liked that they noted they won't try this in humans until they have it perfected. That should help keep naysayers down...
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