Gene Therapy – The new frontier in the fight against cancer!

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Scientists in the United Kingdom are using gene therapy, as a new approach to treat cancer.

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Scientists in the United Kingdom are using gene therapy, as a new approach to treat cancer. They are using genetically modified Human Herpes Virus (of the family Herpesviridae) to infect tumor cells and to destroy them and by doing so they are able to harness the destructive power of this virus (which usually causes infection in humans, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals) to seek out and destroy cancer.

Source: http://cancernewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/08/gene-therapy-n…

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