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Nov 01, 2007 05:29 PM

HIV Laser & Fighting Cancer (2 Articles)

by Alois Wolf

"A physicist and his biologist son destroyed a common virus using a superfast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells. The discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure."
-Superfast Laser Turns Virus Into Rubble

"Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown for the first time that cancers can be successfully treated by targeting the viruses that cause them. The findings, published in the October 31 issue of PloS One, also raise the possibility of preventing cancer by destroying virus-infected cells before they turn cancerous."
-Scientst Treat Cancer as an Infectious Disease -- With Promising Results.

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