Wow this is pretty good news for people facing cancer. The virus is called adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV-2. The article says that it infects over 80% of the population.
"Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet has no effect on healthy cells," said Craig Meyers, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania.
Let's hope we can get a medicine out of this thing soon enough. The part about it not killing healthy cells is a big deal too. If this thing pans out then it would make chemotherapy a thing of the past.
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