Betterhumans - Engineered HIV Hunts Down Cancer:
"A modified AIDS virus has been used to hunt down cancer cells in living mice, suggesting a new vehicle for targeting tumors with gene therapy.
'For the past 20 years, gene therapy has been hampered by the lack of a good carrier for therapeutic genes that can travel through the blood and aim itself at a precise location, thereby minimizing harmful side-effects,' says Irvin Chen, director of the AIDS Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles."
