This article appears in print under the headline «Zika virus can be used to
attack brain cancer cells»
Not exact matches
In glioblastoma, the
cancer cells resemble those in the developing
brain, suggesting that the Zika infection could
attack them too.
The Zika virus can cross the blood -
brain barrier, and could target
cancer cells, sparing normal adult
brain tissue and opening a potential new way to
attack the disease.
Other research at U-M is developing new options for treating
brain cancer through immunotherapy — harnessing the immune system to
attack cancer cells once an injection of a particular gene therapy is delivered into the
brain tumor.