LONDON - The common cold virus has been transformed into a weapon against one of the western world's biggest cancer killers, the New Scientist magazine discloses today.
Scientists in the US have succeeded in creating a mutant strain of the virus that targets and destroys prostate cancer.
Meanwhile, a genetic switch has been discovered that controls processes like bone formation and limb growth and could play a major role in triggering cancer, it was disclosed yesterday in the science journal Nature. - (PA)