Mayo Clinic Advances Understanding of Measles Virus Mechanism


Nature covers Mayo Clinic research released last week in its current on-line front page:

The infectious romp that the measles virus takes through the body doesn’t need to involve the airways, as was previously thought. Instead, the virus prefers to replicate in immune cells. This finding potentially paves the way for new and better cancer treatments that use a modified version of the measles virus to focus on the immune system.

Read the entire article in Nature here. US News & World Report also ran a story on-line.

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