Scientists adapt common cold virus to attacks cancer cells but leave healthy tissue unharmed


	Scientists adapt common cold virus to attacks cancer cells but leave healthy tissue unharmed

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/467cf327-2a02-4847-9e02-48ee4fc23dc7/AC2451E1-B26A-4ED8-9212-5606A9B2C065/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><H1>Scientists adapt common cold virus to attacks cancer cells but leave healthy tissue unharmed</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>
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<A rel="nofollow" class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Daniel+Martin" linkindex="30">Daniel Martin</A>
Last updated at 8:20 AM on 22nd May 2009</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>Experts have developed a virus which they hope could be used to target cancer cells. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>The specially-adapted bug was shown to attack liver tumours in mice but leaves healthy tissue intact. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>The scientists, however, warn it could take at least two years before the technique can be tested on humans. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/64F5951B-9ADE-4DC8-9A12-E0022D0C188E" alt="Scientist with laboratory mouse" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>Oxford University scientists modified a common cold bug called an adenovirus, that typically causes chest infections, to enable it to deliver genetic therapy to tumours without poisoning the liver. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>The changes enabled the virus to keep its natural infectious characteristics to replicate in the lab animals' cancer cells and kill them. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>But for the first time the virus was also recognised and destroyed by healthy mouse liver cells, so it was no longer toxic. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1186088/Scientists-adapt-common-cold-virus-attacks-cancer-cells-leave-healthy-tissue-unharmed.html"><P>Modified naturally-occurring viruses are already used in vaccines for measles and mumps. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC2451E1-B26A-4ED8-9212-5606A9B2C065/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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