Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a virus-based therapy that causes a tumor to destroy itself. They modified an adenovirus, which is a common virus that typically infects the respiratory tract and which is already widely used in medicine, to deliver genetic material that codes for an anti-cancer protein. In a sneaky move,… Read More: Trojan Horse Virus Makes Tumors Destroy Themselves »
The latest outbreak of coronavirus in Victoria has spread to the country with a case detected more than 130km from Melbourne. Department of Health and Human Services testing commander Jeroen Weimar revealed on Friday one of the new positive cases was in Leongatha, which is located in South Gippsland southeast of Melbourne. It comes as… Read More: ‘Not just Melbourne issue’ as virus spreads »
South Australians have been alerted to a possible new COVID-19 case after a man drove into the state from Victoria on Monday. The man, in his twenties, had earlier been on-board a Darwin-to-Sydney flight which had a positive COVID-19 case. “The thing that was made it a little bit difficult for our staff to put… Read More: Possible new virus case drove into SA »
Health News Loading the player… School systems in Detroit, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and suburban Minneapolis are giving up on in-person classes, and some governors are reimposing restrictions on bars and restaurants or getting more serious about masks, as the coast-to-coast resurgence of the coronavirus sends deaths, hospitalizations and new infections soaring. The crisis deepened at hospitals, with… Read More: Virus surge: Schools abandon classes, states retreat »