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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...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Shrink Brain Tumors in Mice | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

Maguire then injected human tumor cells into the brains of the mice...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Shrink Brain Tumors in Mice | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Shrink Brain Tumors in Mice | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...advantages of creating this “zone of resistance” around the tumor is that doing so provides a continuous source of normal cells that produce a therapeutic product that prevents tumor cells from forming, Esteves said...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Shrink Brain Tumors in Mice | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

Many other therapies directly attack dividing tumor cells, but when the cells then die the therapeutic source is lost...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Shrink Brain Tumors in Mice | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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