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

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.

The genetically modified Herpes Virus not only destroys tumor cells,
but also produces biomarkers that help our immune system to identify
tumor cells. This new approach has been effective in animals and a
handful of cancer patients in clinical trials. Scientists believe that
gene therapy could become a radical new approach to fight cancer, in
future.

This news video from BBC News throws more light on this ground-
breaking research.

Watch the video here...
http://cancernewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/08/gene-therapy-new-frontier-in-fight.html

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