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New cancer-fighting virus kills invasive brain cells
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!Alberta researchers have developed a virus that, given intravenously, destroys the most malignant form of brain cancer in mice. The research is being published Nov. 1 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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