'Anti-cancer virus' shows promise

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An engineered virus, injected into the blood, can selectively target cancer cells throughout the body in what researchers have labelled a medical first.

The virus attacked only tumours, leaving the healthy tissue alone, in a small trial on 23 patients, according to the journal Nature.

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Hmm, this seems very risky to be injecting a virus that's designed to destroy cells like that. One mutation and it could target heart muscle cells instead of cancer cells.