Word: miceli
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...team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital recently developed a therapy to suppress brain tumor growth by using a cancer-killing gene delivered via a virus vector to cells surrounding the tumor. Testing their treatment on mice, they said, yielded “spectacular” results...
Maguire then injected human tumor cells into the brains of the mice...
After four days, the size of the tumor in mice with the beta-interferon gene had been substantially reduced compared to the mice that had not received the gene...
Within two weeks, the tumors had been completely eliminated in mice with the interferon-beta gene...
Adenoviruses do not implant in the DNA of their human host and, thus, pose a reduced threat of cancer. Thus far, none of the mice in the study have shown any sign of tumor growth...