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Virus-based technique created to treat diseases
SINGAPORE - Austrian scientists have created a protein cocoon for viruses to help treat diseases such as cancer, news reports said on Saturday.
The researchers at Singapore's Biopolis research centre have for the first time managed to coat viruses without destroying their potency, The Straits Times said.
The technique will allow scientists to use viruses to understand, prevent and treat disease better, said Dr Brian Salmons. The researchers are from the Austrian laboratory Austrianova.
For dangerous diseases, vaccines could get a boost when viruses are given coatings which act as chemical alarms to alert the body's immune system, Salmons told the newspaper.
The sheaths could also be used to enhance gene therapy, where viruses are used as transporters to place new genetic material or drugs in human beings.
"We would put various substances on the surface of viruses to help them to zoom in on different types of diseased cells, for example," Salmons was quoted as saying.
Coating these viruses with magnetic substances could make them even more effective in attacking cancer tumour cells, said team member John Dangerfield.
"We can then use a magnet outside the body to draw the virus to the tumour," he said.
The work has been carried out in both Singapore and in Austria, the report said.
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