Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally. A decade after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first virus-based cancer therapy, ...

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that a single injection of an ...

Glioblastoma patients, long shut out from immunotherapies that have transformed patient care in other cancers, could finally benefit from a new treatment option. Boston cancer researchers have found ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Cancer-fighting, genetically engineered herpes simplex virus has been shown to be an effective treatment for ...

A genetically modified version of the virus behind cold sores might one day help people who’ve run out of other options. A modified herpesvirus combined with an immunotherapy drug shrank or eliminated ...

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that a single injection of an oncolytic virus—a genetically modified virus that selectively infects and ...

While it may give billions of people worldwide painful cold sores, a common virus could be harnessed to provide a much-need new cancer treatment. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers with ...

A genetically-modified virus for pig sugar can trick the immune system into attacking human tumors. Scientists have modified a virus to contain a pig sugar gene that can express on human tumor cells ...