Interesting article posted by the Science Blog this week. A research project funded in part by a Canadian Cancer Society Innovation Grant explores the application of mathematical models on predicting how modifying the genome of a virus might counter the anti-viral defenses of cancer cells.
Dr. Bell and co-author Dr. Mads Kaern, an assistant professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine and Canada Research Chair at the University’s Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, led a team that has used mathematical modelling to devise strategies for making cancer cells exquisitely sensitive to virus infection — killing them without affecting normal, healthy cells.
Read more at http://scienceblog.com/63843/using-math-to-kill-cancer-cells/#KXUtSkbOy0l6fJYI.99 Read more at http://scienceblog.com/63843/using-math-to-kill-cancer-cells/#KXUtSkbOy0l6fJYI.99
Using Math to Kill Cancer Cells
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