Zika as an Oncolytic Therapy for Brain Cancer?

Tropical diseases aren’t typically where the mind goes when considering new therapies for aggressive brain tumors . However, if the results from a new study by researchers at the University of Campinas's School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCF-UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil hold up, then genetically modified Zika could become an alternative for treatment of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive kind of malignant brain tumor in adults. Finding from the new study were publi