Researchers have developed the downstream section of a new streamlined production method for an emerging virus class.

A 50-year-old scientist, Beata Halassy, treated her own stage 3 breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses. Halassy, a virologist at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, discovered ...

Oncolytic viruses encoding ULBP3, a molecule driving reeducation of immunosuppressive macrophages, ... Dr. Hans-Georg Wirsching (Holland lab) and colleagues developed an oncolytic herpes simplex virus ...

Our lab and others have recently proposed that the metabolic state of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, either preexisting or adoptively transferred, ... Learn about oncolytic viruses and their ...

Known as oncolytic virus therapy, the technique has shown both great promise and also some real limitations, ... As part of their experiments on cell cultures and lab-grown tumors, ...

Upon learning she had a breast cancer tumor, a Croatian virologist decided to grow her own viruses to fight the disease — and it worked. As the journal Nature reports, this risky but ultimately ...

Restricting the ability of cancer cells to metabolise sugar could make oncolytic viruses more effective at attacking them, suggests a study published today in the journal Cancer Research.

A Croatian virologist, Beata Halassy, battling breast cancer recurrence, took a daring step by injecting herself with lab-grown viruses. This unconventional self-treatment, known as oncolytic ...

Microorganisms called oncolytic viruses can infect and kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. Some are natural, while others have been engineered in laboratories. There are a few that ...

Oncolytic, or cancer-lysing viruses, are being tested by researchers, to see if they efficiently kill cancer cells with minimal side effects. The American Cancer Society's Chief Medical Officer Dr ...