Noted: Eric Johannsen, assistant professor and infectious disease doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Cancer is, essentially, cells that have started to grow uncontrollably and stop behaving like normal cells. Viruses are an attractive treatment tool because they, by their very nature, are manipulators of cells. It may be possible to re-engineer viruses in a way that could either stop cancers from growing or kill cancer cells.
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