Scientists have harnessed the killing power of a debilitating virus to slay
even more deadly foes–malignant brain tumors. In research on mice, Mattias M. Gromeier and his colleagues altered a live poliovirus, inducing it to attack and eliminate tumor cells in the animals’ brains.
The modification changes the virus just enough so that it can’t cause polio.
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