First Patient Injected With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus

[dora_da_destroyer]

First Patient Injected With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Clinical Trial

An experimental cancer-killing virus has been administered to a human patient for the first time, with hopes the testing will ultimately reveal evidence of a new means of successfully fighting cancer tumors in people's bodies.

www.sciencealert.com

The drug candidate, called CF33-hNIS (aka Vaxinia), is what's called an oncolytic virus, a genetically modified virus designed to selectively infect and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.

In the case of CF33-hNIS, the modified pox virus works by entering cells and duplicating itself. Eventually, the infected cell bursts, releasing thousands of new virus particles that act as antigens, stimulating the immune system to attack nearby cancer cells.

 

[hashmander]

please let it work ... fukk cancer.

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[dora_da_destroyer]

please let it work ... fukk cancer.

Imugene (IMU) is traded on ASX (australian securities exchange).

i'm def gonna keep an eye out for news on this over the next few years, even if it only works for a few types of cancer, that's a big step in the right direction

 

[cyndaquil]

Please work

 

[Secure Da Bag]

All this talk about monkeypox and now we have a pox that people want.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This is definitely how the zombie apocalypse starts. Cancer cells are human cells, so you attack them....

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[cyndaquil]

This is definitely how the zombie apocalypse starts. Cancer cells are human cells, so you attack them....

I am Legend was a good movie breh

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

But all of the right wing grifters convinced me gain of function research was bad

i'm def gonna keep an eye out for news on this over the next few years, even if it only works for a few types of cancer, that's a big step in the right direction

Are you gonna invest?

 

[MushroomX]

Bout to have a real life Deadpool on deck, or a Zombie apocalypse.

Joking aside, it be great news in the field of medicine if we can curb Cancer, because not enough attention is on neurological.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I am Legend was a good movie breh

I refuse to watch it cause I heard they completely changed the ending from the book which was one of the GOAT sci fi endings.

The entire point of the book was to get to the ending. If you change the ending then the story no longer has any reason to exist.