Viral 'magic bullet' targets cancer cells with help of new compound

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 12:43 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital - along with colleagues at the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI) -report a significant breakthrough in the use of viruses to target and destroy cancer cells, a field known as oncolytic virotherapy. Their results were published in the September early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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