Employing Zika as a Cancer Killing Tool

Never afraid to try and turn a pathogen into a potential tool for treating other diseases, scientists have uncovered a therapeutic use for the Zika virus (ZIKV). Investigators at the University of São Paulo's Bioscience Institute (IB-USP) in Brazil have just published new data showing that ZIKV can be used in vivo to treat aggressive human central nervous system (CNS) tumors . Findings from the new study were published recently in Cancer Research , in an article entitled “ Zika Viru