Scientists have injected a human medical trial participant with a virus that is designed to kill cancer cells.

The treatment is known as oncolytic virus therapy, in which a natural virus is genetically modified to enter cancer cells and replicate itself, thus killing them. Crucially, it’s designed to do this while avoiding healthy cells.

The treatment can also help prime peoples’ immune systems against cancer, according to Imugene Limited, a clinical cancer research company… Continue reading.