by University of California – San Diego Credit: Nano Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01328 A new combination therapy to combat cancer could one day consist of a plant virus and an antibody that activates the immune system’s “natural killer” cells, shows a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego. In mouse models of colon cancer,...
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Why a Certain Plant Virus Is So Powerful at Fighting Cancer
A plant virus that infects legumes, called cowpea mosaic virus, has an extraordinary power that you may not have known about: when injected into a tumor, it triggers the immune system to treat cancer—even metastatic cancer prevents it from recurring. For the past seven years, researchers at the University of California San Diego and Dartmouth College...