Simple shell of plant virus sparks immune response against cancer
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 13:41
in Health & Medicine
The shells of a common plant virus, inhaled into a lung tumor or injected into ovarian, colon or breast tumors, not only triggered the immune system in mice to wipe out the tumors, but provided systemic protection against metastases, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Dartmouth University report.